Objective. The primary objective of this investigation is to determine which individual and aggregate factors of residential addiction treatment centers are most significant influencers of alumni satisfaction. Design. Survey targeted alumni of residential addiction treatment facilities. Alumni were queried through a survey, which utilized Likert-scale matrices and binary response options: 379 r...

BACKGROUND Alternatives to traditional in-patient services may be associated with a better experience of admission. AIMS To compare patient satisfaction, ward atmosphere and perceived coercion in the two types of service, using validated measures. METHOD The experience of 314 patients in four residential alternatives and four standard services were compared using the Client Satisfaction Que...

Today, urbanization (living at apartments) phenomenon as the most common type of residence of cities has been changed so that mainly reflects the chaos in this area. Too much attention paid to economic indicators compromised the balance in the housing sector and created a new type of buildings. The occurred changes indicate ignoring cultural characteristics, less attention paid to cultural conc...

OBJECTIVE The study compared the demographic and diagnostic characteristics of clients and the outcomes of treatment in five short-term acute residential treatment programs and two acute hospital-based psychiatric programs. METHODS A total of 368 clients in the short-term acute residential treatment programs and 186 clients in the psychiatric hospital programs participated in an observational...

OBJECTIVE To develop side effect (SE) monitoring checklists for four categories of psychotropic medications (antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors), to improve residential direct care staff's confidence and competence in SE monitoring, and to facilitate communication of potential observed SE to medical personnel (e.g., nurse, physician). MET...

The purpose of the present thesis was, first, to study how parents and other adults percieve or judge children’s accident risk, and, secondly, to relate such judgem ents to the subjects’ preferences for and satisfaction with different residential conditions. A theoretical framework is proposed which assumes that judgem ents o f children’s accident risk are based on beliefs about what causes acc...

This study aimed to explore the residential experience of people with disabilities in family households. A sample of 31 people with spinal cord injury were interviewed on satisfaction with home modifications, psycho-environmental potential of the home, and neighborhood quality. Positive and negative answers were quantitized, yielding indices of positive and negative residential well-being. We c...

This study examines associations between caregivers' satisfaction with children's Medicaid-funded behavioral health care plans and the likelihood that children with severe emotional disturbance receive mental health services. Data are from a multisite study of managed care versus fee-for-service (FFS) settings. In multivariate logistic regression analyses controlling for demographic, environmen...