Table 4:
Treatment outcomes by end-of-treatment employment status.
| end-of-treatment Unemployed n = 223 (47.8%) |
end-of-treatment Employed n = 243 (52.2%) |
Estimate/SE | t | OR | P. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical outcomes within treatment | ||||||
| Percentage of days abstinent during treatment (Mean ± SD) | 64.4 ± 29.8 | 74.4 ± 23.3 | 8.69/2.56 | 3.39 | - | .001 |
| Percentage cocaine-negative samples during treatment (Mean ± SD) | 25.1 ± 33.4 | 33.9 ± 37.2 | - | - | - | ns |
| Achieved 3 or more weeks of consecutive cocaine abstinence (N (%)) | 68 (30.5) | 93 (38.3) | - | - | - | ns |
| Longest duration abstinence during treatment (days) (Mean ± SD) | 16.2 ± 19.9 | 22.6 ± 24.6 | 4.75/2.17 | 2.19 | - | .029 |
| Retained treatment and abstinence in last week of treatment (N (%)) | 55 (25.7) | 74 (31.6) | - | - | - | ns |
| Complete abstinence during treatment (N (%)) | 14 (6.5) | 26 (10.9) | - | - | - | ns |
| Clinical outcomes at follow-up | ||||||
| Percentage of days abstinent at follow-up month 1 (Mean ± SD) | 76.7 ± 29.8 | 82.3 ± 24.8 | 5.47/2.6 | 2.1 | - | .036 |
| Employment at follow-up month 1 (N (%)) | 43 (21.2) | 224 (93.3) | 3.86/31 | - | 47.68 | .001 |
| Percentage of days abstinent at follow-up month 3 (Mean ± SD) | 80.4 ± 30.2 | 83.3 ± 24.7 | - | - | - | ns |
| Employment at follow-up month 3 (N (%)) | 61 (30.3) | 207 (87.3) | 2.76 /.25 | - | 15.77 | .001 |
| Percentage of days abstinent at follow-up month 6 (Mean ± SD) | 80.9 ± 29.7 | 82.2 ± 26.5 | - | - | - | ns |
| Employment at follow-up month 6 (N (%)) | 90 (44.8) | 188 (83.2) | 1.75/.23 | - | 5.76 | .001 |
The unemployed group served as reference for the analyses
SE = Standard Error; OR = Odds Ratio; ns = statistically non-significant.