Table 2.
Responses for Kirby’s Provider Survey of Incentives (Modified)
| Survey Question | Mean Item Score for Material Incentives (± SD)¥ | Mean Item Score for Social Incentives (± SD)¥ |
|---|---|---|
| Q1.Overall, I would be in favor of adding an incentive program to the court* | 3.48 (±1.05) | 4.19(±1.85) |
| Q2.Incentives are useful if they reward offenders for fulfilling treatment goals other than just providing a clean urine sample, such as regular attendance | 3.63(±0.90) | 3.78(±0.88) |
| Q3.Incentives help offenders achieve sobriety, allowing the counselor to focus on helping them make other life changes* | 3.52(±0.81) | 3.72(±0.77) |
| Q4.Giving incentives for drug-free urine samples helps the offender to become abstinent* | 3.18 (±0.92) | 3.50(±0.84) |
| Q5.An advantage of incentive programs is that they focus on what is good in the offender’s behavior (i.e., the ability to become abstinent), not what went wrong in their recovery | 3.76(±0.80) | 3.94(0.79) |
| Q6.Any source of abstinence motivation, not just internal motivation, is a good thing for treatment | 3.72(±0.82) | 3.95(0.73) |
| Q7.Incentives can be useful whether or not they address the underlying issues of addiction* | 3.58(±0.87) | 3.87(±0.67) |
| Q8.Many offenders will see rewards for abstinence as cheesy or artificial ® | 3.44(±0.89) | 3.56(±0.86) |
| Q9.Incentives are just not right because they are rewarding the offender for what he/she should be doing in the first place ® | 3.49(±1.02) | 3.83(±0.83) |
| Q10.It wouldn’t be right to give incentives to offenders for goals such as attendance if they aren’t testing negative (clean) ® | 2.73(±1.09) | 2.99(± 1.14) |
| Q11.Incentive programs are not consistent with my philosophy of treatment ® | 3.54(±0.99) | 3.87(±0.78) |
| Q12.Incentives are a bribe ® | 3.67(±1.04) | 3.91(±0.79) |
| Q13.The problem with incentives is that abstinence will only last for as long as the incentives are given ® | 3.50(±1.01) | 3.79(±0.80) |
| Q14.Giving incentives for treatment attendance will not improve attendance ® | 3.57(±0.80) | 3.72(± 0.72) |
| Q15.There are enough rewards in being clean; incentives aren’t necessary ® | 3.54(±0.95) | 3.82(±0.79) |
| Q16.Incentives don’t address the underlying issues of addiction ® | 2.56(±0.97) | 2.76(±1.06) |
*
Items that did not load during factor analysis and were not used in calculation of overall scale means. These items were not used in the scales for Tables 3 and 4.
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Means are on a five-point scale (1=Disagree Strongly, 2=Disagree, 3=Neutral, 4=Agree, 5=Agree Strongly)
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Reverse coded.