Table 1.
Treatment Expectations and Baseline Characteristics
| MET-E N = 461 |
MET-S N = 405 |
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| ‘Unsure’ | ‘Sure’ | X2 (df) | p | ‘Unsure’ | ‘Sure’ | X2 (df) | p | |
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| Gender: Female | 52 (28.1) | 81 (29.9) | .17 (1) | .681 | 19 (9.9) | 28 (13.1) | 1.04 (1) | .308 |
| Ethnicity | 16.78 (4) | .002 | 12.57 (8) | .127 | ||||
| Caucasian | 98 (53) | 98 (36.2) | 6 (3.1) | 15 (7.0) | ||||
| African-American | 64 (34.6) | 128 (47.2) | 0 | 3 (1.4) | ||||
| Hispanic | 15 (8.1) | 38 (14) | 47 (24.5) | 51 (23.9) | ||||
| Asian | 3 (1.6) | 1 (.4) | - | - | ||||
| Mexican | - | - | 74 (38.5) | 75 (35.2) | ||||
| Puerto Rican | - | - | 34 (38.5) | 24 (11.3) | ||||
| Cuban | - | - | 12 (6.3) | 23 (10.8) | ||||
| Guatemalan | - | - | 5 (2.6) | 6 (2.8) | ||||
| Multiracial | - | - | 2 (1.0) | 5 (2.3) | ||||
| Other | 5 (2.7) | 6 (2.2) | 12 (6.3) | 11 (5.2) | ||||
| Never married/Living Alone | 160 (86.5) | 213 (78.6) | 4.6 (1) | .032 | 126 (65.6) | 112 (52.6) | 7.09 (1) | .008 |
| Unemployed | 106 (57.3) | 147 (54.2) | .42 (1) | .519 | 78 (40.6) | 78 (36.6) | .68 (1) | .408 |
| Referred by Criminal Justice | 69 (37.3) | 78 (28.8) | 3.65 (1) | .056 | 111 (57.8) | 128 (60.1) | .22 (1) | .641 |
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| M (SD) | M (SD) | F (df) | M (SD) | M (SD) | F (df) | |||
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| Years of Education | 12.7 (2.1) | 12.5 (2.1) | 1.35 (1, 454) | .246 | 9.5 (2.9) | 9.6 (3.5) | .02 (1, 402) | .904 |
| Age | 33.1 (10.2) | 35.8 (10.1) | 7.35 (1, 454) | .007 | 32.4 (9.2) | 32.6 (8.9) | .07 (1, 403) | .789 |
| Days of primary drug use1 | 10.7 (8.7) | 9.1 (8.1) | 3.7 (1, 418) | .055 | 8.5 (9.1) | 6.2 (7.9) | 7.35 (1, 403) | .007 |
| Days of cocaine use1 | 3.2 (5.9) | 3.9 (6.4) | 1.54 (1, 449) | .215 | 3.2 (6.8) | 1.9 (4.6) | 4.66 (1, 403) | .031 |
| Days of heroin use1 | 1.6 (4.9) | 1.4 (4.2) | .2 (1, 449) | .656 | 1.1 (4.3) | 0.6 (3.2) | 1.86 (1, 403) | .174 |
| Days of marijuana use1 | 4.7 (8.2) | 2.8 (6.4) | 8.13 (1, 449) | .005 | 2.2 (6.4) | 2.1 (6.3) | .03 (1, 403) | .867 |
| Days of alcohol use1 | 7.2 (7.9) | 5.5 (6.8) | 5.74 (1, 449) | .017 | 5.7 (7.5) | 4.2 (6.2) | 5.2 (1, 403) | .023 |
| ASI Legal Composite | .14 (.19) | .10 (.17) | 5.93 (1, 453) | .015 | .13 (.17) | .17 (.19) | 3.88 (1, 402) | .049 |
| ASI Medical Composite | .24 (.32) | .22 (.32) | .54 (1, 449) | .882 | .11 (.24) | .13 (.26) | .98 (1, 402) | .322 |
| ASI Employment Composite | .64 (.29) | .67 (.28) | 1.15 (1, 452) | .463 | .74 (.24) | .70 (.25) | 2.93 (1, 402) | .088 |
| ASI Alcohol Composite | .24 (.24) | .21 (.23) | 1.48 (1, 453) | .224 | .19 (.19) | .17 (.20) | .54 (1, 402) | .463 |
| ASI Drug Composite | .15 (.12) | .15 (.12) | .07 (1, 452) | .786 | .09 (.11) | .08 (.11) | .51 (1, 402) | .474 |
| ASI Family Composite | .20 (.22) | .20 (.23) | .02 (1, 453) | .885 | .14 (.18) | .16 (.20) | 1.74 (1, 402) | .188 |
| ASI Psychological Composite | .22 (.21) | .20 (.22) | 1.69 (1, 453) | .195 | .16 (.23) | .18 (.23) | .38 (1, 402) | .537 |
| Months Incarcerated Lifetime | 9.2 (20.8) | 11.1 (22.5) | .83 (1, 453) | .363 | 11.6 (27.3) | 5.8 (17.6) | 6.68 (1, 402) | .01 |
| Previous Alcohol Treatments | 2.4 (6.5) | 1.6 (3.7) | 2.62 (1, 453) | .106 | .9 (3.0) | 0.8 (2.1) | .33 (1, 402) | .569 |
| Previous Drug Treatments | 2.8 (5.6) | 2.7 (4.7) | .04 (1, 453) | .845 | 1.2 (3.3) | 0.9 (2.6) | 1.21 (1, 402) | .272 |
| Acculturation - Hispanicism | - | - | - | - | 4.33 (.71) | 4.3 (.73) | .16 (1, 403) | .689 |
| Acculturation - Americanism | - | - | - | - | 2.97 (1.29) | 3 (1.33) | .06 (1, 399) | .805 |
| URICA Readiness Score | 79.36 (15.95) | 82.73 (14.12) | 5.54 (1, 447) | .019 | 73.84 (15.54) | 77.93 (16.13) | 6.74 (1, 403) | .010 |
Note. – signifies that the response option was not available in the sample.
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signifies that the variable accounts for the previous 28 days prior to administration.