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Dissertation
The relationship of executive functioning and moral reasoning to treatment retention and outcome among urban cocaine abusers
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Allegheny University of the Health Sciences
Aug 1997
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00008302
Abstract
This study examined the executive functioning and moral reasoning of 41 very poor, urban, predominantly minority, crack cocaine users at the time of intake into a cocaine treatment program, and related these abilities to indices of cocaine treatment retention and outcome. The following neuropsychological battery was administered to 31 men and 10 women an average of 6 days following admission: Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Alternate Uses Test (AUT), Trail Making Tests, Controlled Oral Word Association Test (FAS), and the Defining Issues Test (moral reasoning). Results indicated that the sample as a whole performed within the Average range on all executive functioning measures employed. Executive functioning scores were modestly correlated with the number of days subjects were active in treatment (TDT) and the number of counseling sessions attended (CSA) with better executive functioning being positively related to better retention in treatment. However, executive functioning was not associated with treatment outcome as determined by the percentage of clean urine samples (PCU) subjects provided and by the greatest number of consecutive clean urine (CCU) samples that subjects attained. Moral reasoning was modestly related to the Trail Making Test, but to none of the treatment retention or outcome measures. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
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- Title
- The relationship of executive functioning and moral reasoning to treatment retention and outcome among urban cocaine abusers
- Creators
- Andrea L. Piatt
- Contributors
- J. Michael Williams (Advisor) - Drexel University, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences (1996-1998)
- Awarding Institution
- Allegheny University of the Health Sciences
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Publisher
- Allegheny University of the Health Sciences; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vi, 113 unnumbered pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Allegheny University of the Health Sciences (1996-1998); Clinical and Health Psychology [Historical]; School of Health Professions (1996-1998)
- Other Identifier
- 991021888888104721