Table 1.
Characteristics of the Total, Drug Court, and Non-Drug Court Samples
| Total Sample | Drug Court Sample | Non-Drug Court Sample | t-test/chi - square p level | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n=475 | n=274 | n=201 | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Age (mean) | 30.36 | 30.65 | 29.965 | 0.5007 | |||
| Male | 368 | 77.47% | 218 | 79.56% | 150 | 74.63% | 0.2042 |
| African American | 218 | 45.89% | 122 | 44.53% | 96 | 47.76% | 0.4855 |
| Hispanic | 66 | 13.89% | 34 | 12.41% | 32 | 15.92% | 0.2753 |
| Other race | 19 | 4.00% | 13 | 4.74% | 6 | 2.99% | 0.3347 |
| White | 172 | 36.21% | 105 | 38.32% | 67 | 33.33% | 0.2647 |
| Education < high school graduate | 219 | 46.11% | 118 | 43.07% | 101 | 50.25% | 0.1213 |
| High school graduate, <some college | 167 | 35.16% | 95 | 34.67% | 72 | 35.82% | 0.796 |
| Some college or greater education | 89 | 18.74% | 61 | 22.26% | 28 | 13.93% | 0.0215 |
| Married | 112 | 23.58% | 68 | 24.82% | 44 | 21.89% | 0.4589 |
| Employed full/part-time | 264 | 55.58% | 166 | 60.58% | 98 | 48.76% | 0.0103 |
| Employed other | 122 | 25.68% | 67 | 24.45% | 55 | 27.36% | 0.4742 |
| Unemployed | 89 | 18.74% | 41 | 14.96% | 48 | 23.88% | 0.0138 |
| Income $10,000 + | 164 | 34.60% | 104 | 38.10% | 60 | 29.85% | 0.0624 |
| Prior arrests (mean) | 6.451 | 6.547 | 6.318 | 0.7052 | |||
| Total prior prison sentences (mean) | 0.3696 | 0.3447 | 0.4031 | 0.4987 | |||
| Drug offender probation supervision | 340 | 71.58% | 208 | 99.27% | 68 | 33.83% | <.0001 |
| Felony probation supervision | 135 | 28.42% | 2 | 0.73% | 133 | 66.17% | <.0001 |
| Felt need for drug treatment | 111 | 23.47% | 77 | 28.21% | 34 | 17.00% | 0.0044 |
| Received treatment before baseline | 182 | 38.48% | 121 | 44.32% | 61 | 30.50% | 0.002 |
| Drug problem recognition scale | 2.098 | 2.249 | 1.887 | 0.0003 | |||
| Desire for help with drugs scale | 2.898 | 2.982 | 2.78 | 0.0042 | |||
| Pressure to get help with drugs scale | 2.93 | 3.192 | 2.561 | <.0001 | |||
| Social support scale | 3.773 | 3.776 | 3.768 | 0.938 | |||
| Primary care responsibilities for child | 144 | 30.32% | 73 | 26.64% | 71 | 35.32% | 0.0421 |
| Alcohol use past 6 months | 355 | 74.74% | 215 | 78.47% | 140 | 69.65% | 0.0289 |
| Marijuana use past 6 months | 274 | 57.68% | 165 | 60.22% | 109 | 54.23% | 0.1925 |
| Illicit non-marijuana use past 6 mos. | 151 | 31.79% | 97 | 35.40% | 54 | 26.87% | 0.0485 |
| Drinking scale (10 indicator mean) | 0.0888 | 0.1047 | 0.0672 | 0.0079 | |||
| Drug use scale (7 indicator mean) | 0.2271 | 0.2596 | 0.1827 | 0.0004 | |||
| Mental health diagnosis | 121 | 25.47% | 72 | 26.28% | 49 | 24.38% | 0.6397 |
| Public attorney | 337 | 71.10% | 199 | 72.89% | 138 | 68.66% | 0.3156 |
| Colorado Symptom Index (CSI) | 27.124 | 26.996 | 27.299 | 0.7565 | |||