Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the Personal Experience Inventory (PEI) as a measure of change in adolescent drug misuse. One year test-retest reliability of the PEI Problem Severity Scales was measured in a sample of drug-misusing adolescents who did not receive treatment during the 1-year test-retest interval (n = 37). The five PEI Problem Severity Scales demonstrated satisfactory 1 year temporal stability coefficients, ranging from .86 to .89. The utility of the PEI as a measure of change was demonstrated by using the 1-year test-retest reliability data to measure both statistically significant and clinically significant change between admission and 1-year follow up in a sample of drug-misusing adolescents who received treatment (n = 45). The PEI was useful in identifying which treatment clients exhibited statistically significant improvement, statistically significant deterioration, and no reliable change.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 63-76 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Substance Use and Misuse |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1997 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We wish to thank Phil Bandt and Mary Kaye Monahan for administration of intake questionnaires and Jayne Fulkerson for administration of follow-up questionnaires. We also wish to thank Nadav Cassuto, George Henly, and William Latimer for reviewing an earlier draft of this article. Preparation of this article was supported in part by the National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant DA05104 and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Grant AA08764.
Keywords
- Adolescent drug misuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Measuring change
