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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Time to change - an exploratory study of motivation among untreated and treated substance abusers

Addiction Research & Theory, Volume 15, Issue 3 January 2007 , pages 247 - 261








This exploratory study examines whether the attitudes towards change and treatment of untreated non-abstinent substance abusers differ from those of patients undergoing treatment in residential care.

The attitudes of the three groups - untreated, voluntarily and compulsorily treated subjects - differed with respect to lifestyle change. Factor analysis of the measures revealed one component of primary interest, general willingness to change.

Results show that willingness to change was correlated with other attitudinal characteristics in the three groups. The stability of substance abusers' motivation is discussed with the focus on different social contexts' influence on change-compliant attitudes and behaviour.

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