Table 3.

Partial Correlations Between Perceived Helpfulness of Treatment and Substance Use and Retention Outcomes by Race

Item	Days of Primary Drug Use			Days of Other Drug Use
	African American	White	z	African American	White	z
1	−0.14	0.02	−1.34	−0.04	−0.08	0.33
2	0.07	−0.09	1.33	0.06	−0.08	1.17
3	−0.02	−0.04	0.17	−0.04	−0.06	0.17
4	−0.06	0.04	−0.83	0.05	−0.05	0.83
5	0.04	−0.01	0.42	0.08	−0.01	0.75
6	−0.10	−0.09	0.67	−0.01	0.02	−0.25
7	−0.04	0.01	−0.42	0.01	0.02	−0.08
8	−0.06	−0.05	−0.08	−0.03	−0.09	0.50
9	−0.01	−0.14	1.09	0.09	−0.15	2.01
10	0.03	−0.03	0.50	0.02	0.01	0.08
11	−0.01	−0.10	0.75	−0.02	0.06	−0.67
12	−0.01	−0.05	0.33	0.06	−0.13	1.59

Note. 1. p < .01

2.Item Descriptions: 1 = “talking about things that happened to me when I was growing up”; 2 = “learning skills that will help me cope with my problems”; 3 = “learning how to deal with my family conflicts”; 4 = “learning about the effects of drugs/alcohol on my body and mind”; 5 = “teaching my family about how to help me stop using”; 6 = “going to Alcoholics Anonymous [AA], Cocaine Anonymous [CA], and/or Narcotics Anonymous [NA]”; 7 = “monitoring of my drug use through urine testing”; 8 = “learning skills on how to deal with situations that tempt me to use drugs/alcohol”; 9 = “being able to call sober friends when I need help”; 10 = “treatment for emotional problems like depression or anxiety”; 11= “just being in treatment”; 12 = “helping me get along better with the people who are important to me and improving my social life.”

3.Partial correlation coefficient analyses controlled for age and employment status.