Families as Partners in Homeless Drug Abuse Services

家庭作为无家可归者药物滥用服务的合作伙伴

基本信息

批准号：
6523342
负责人：
MICHAEL F POLGAR
金额：
$ 7.7万
依托单位：
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2001
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2001-08-05 至 2003-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6523342
关键词：
drug abuse drug abuse therapy family structure /dynamics health care service utilization health education homeless human subject human therapy evaluation outcomes research patient oriented research social support network

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) Homeless adults have disproportionate rates of drug use disorders, especially those dually diagnosed with other mental disorders. Drug use disorders are significantly associated with homelessness, early onset of homelessness, protracted homelessness, and housing instability. However, the homeless population does not fully utilize drug abuse treatment. Previous research has identified family involvement as an important predictor of treatment outcomes and housing among homeless populations. A variety of educational group intervention models for families have demonstrated effectiveness. An experienced, multidisciplinary research team in social science and medicine will develop a family-based intervention against drug abuse, pilot this intervention, and develop methods that can be used to evaluate the success of this intervention. This project strives to apply research to practice in order to reduce and reverse adverse consequences of drug abuse and homelessness. The proposed intervention, empowering families as partners against drug abuse, is based on responsive educational groups for relatives of persons who are homeless and abusing drugs. This project will develop educational groups for 25 family pairs, one homeless person meeting diagnostic criteria for drug abuse disorder and one close relative, helping families engage their drug abusing relatives in treatment and recovery. This project will test methods for assessing intervention outcomes, surveying both homeless individuals and their relatives before and after they attend multifamily groups. For homeless drug abusers, this project will measure primary outcomes, including severity of drug use disorder, housing status, and use of health and social services. For relatives, this project will measure secondary problems related to drug abuse, including family burdens, social support, social costs, health and social service use. This study will contribute to our knowledge of recovery from drug abuse in homeless populations, which can be improved by a strong and supported family.

描述：（由申请人提供）无家可归的成年人吸毒障碍的比例不成比例，尤其是双重诊断患有其他精神障碍的人。药物使用障碍是与无家可归、无家可归的早期发作显着相关，长期无家可归和住房不稳定。然而，无家可归者人口没有充分利用药物滥用治疗。先前的研究有确定家庭参与是治疗结果的重要预测因素和无家可归者的住房。多元化教育集团家庭干预模式已被证明是有效的。社会科学和医学领域经验丰富的多学科研究团队将制定一项以家庭为基础的针对药物滥用的干预措施，并进行试点干预，并开发可用于评估成功的方法这种干预。该项目致力于将研究应用于实践减少和扭转吸毒和无家可归的不良后果。这拟议的干预措施是赋予家庭权力，使其成为反对药物滥用的伙伴基于针对以下人士亲属的响应性教育团体无家可归和滥用药物。该项目将为 25 对家庭（其中一对无家可归者）建立教育小组符合药物滥用障碍诊断标准的人和一名亲密的人亲属，帮助家庭让吸毒亲属接受治疗，并恢复。该项目将测试评估干预结果的方法，对无家可归者及其亲属在他们之前和之后进行调查参加多家庭团体。对于无家可归的吸毒者，该项目将衡量主要结局，包括吸毒障碍的严重程度、住房状况和使用健康和社会服务。对于亲属，该项目将测量与药物滥用有关的次要问题，包括家庭负担、社会负担支持、社会成本、健康和社会服务的使用。这项研究将有助于我们了解无家可归者吸毒后的康复情况人口，可以通过一个强大且受支持的家庭来改善。