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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Addict. 2016 Mar 18;25(3):233–240. doi: 10.1111/ajad.12366

TABLE 2.

Means and standard deviations for substance use outcome variables

Outcome measure Intake
3 months
6 months
12 months
Effect sizea
M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)
Substance problem scale .98
 A-CRA/ACC 4.51 (4.51) .56 (1.52) .90 (2.10) 1.16 (2.34)
 SAU 3.48 (3.56) .97 (2.28) 1.64 (3.19) 1.53 (3.42)
No substance problems
 A-CRA/ACC (n [%]) 14 (22) 50 (81) 44 (73) 38 (66)
 SAU (n [%]) 17 (27) 42 (70) 36 (62) 40 (73)
Substance frequency scale .39
 A-CRA/ACC .23 (.18) .04 (.09) .04 (.09) .06 (.09)
 SAU .18 (.16) .04 (.09) .05 (.09) .07 (.15)
No substance use
 A-CRA/ACC (n [%]) 2 (3) 40 (65) 32 (53) 24 (41)
 SAU (n [%]) 4 (6) 33 (55) 30 (52) 24 (44)

ACC, assertive community care; A-CRA, adolescent community reinforcement approach; M, mean; n, number of participants; SAU, services as usual; SD, standard deviation.

a

Effect size shown is Cohen’s d for treatment comparison for the continuous part of the two-part model.