7-year trajectories of Alcoholics Anonymous attendance and associations with treatment

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1029-1035

  Kaskutas, Lee Ann ^a,b   Bond, Jason ^a   Avalos, Lyndsay Ammon ^a  

^a ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AA; Latent class growth curve modeling; Latent classes; Mutual aid; Self help

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ALCOHOLISM; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; TEMPERANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69449107681     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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