RELATION OF CLIENT VARIABLES TO CONTINUANCE IN 5 TYPES OF ALCOHOL TREATMENT SETTINGS

Multiple regression analyses were used to assess the relationship of 2 9 client variables to continuance in five types of alcohol treatment s ettings (outpatient, inpatient, social detoxification, halfway houses with highly structured treatment regimens, and halfway houses with min imal structured treatment; N = 3,240). Socioeconomic variables were mo st often related to continuance; however, the pattern of the relations hip between predictor variables and continuance varied greatly from se tting to setting. The strongest multiple regression coefficients were found for outpatient and inpatient settings and the weakest were found for the two types of halfway house settings. It was concluded that ar chive-derived variables had significant, but limited, power to predict continuance and that other approaches to investigating continuance ar e needed.