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Development and validation of a multidimensional instrument for assessing outcome of treatment among opiate users: the Opiate Treatment Index
Author(s) -
DARKE SHANE,
HALL WAYNE,
WODAKI ALEX,
HEATHER NICK,
WARD JEFF
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1992.tb02719.x
Subject(s) - opiate , index (typography) , outcome (game theory) , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , drug treatment , medicine , computer science , mathematics , receptor , mathematical economics , world wide web
This article presents a new instrument with which to assess the effects of opiate treatment. The Opiate Treatment Index (OTI) is multi‐dimensional in structure, with scales measuring six independently measured outcome domains: drug use; HIV risk‐taking behaviour; social functioning; criminality; health; and psychological adjustment. Psychometric properties of the Index are excellent, suggesting that the OTI is a relatively quick, efficient means of obtaining reliable and valid data on opiate users undergoing treatment over a range of relevant outcome domains.