The SWEDATE project: Interaction between treatment, client background, and outcome in a one-year follow-up

Causes of premature mortality in Swedish drug abusers: A prospective longitudinal study 1970–2006

“…Clinical interviews, standardized questionnaires (SWEDATE) and hospital records contained mandatory information on length, intensity of substance abuse and psychiatric diagnoses. 39,40 Diagnoses of psychiatric disorders were issued at discharge by the senior consulting psychiatrist. For this presentation, three broad groups according to ICD-8 nomenclature were used: psychosis, neurotic disorder (depression and/or anxiety disorders) and personality disorder.…”

The Design and Effectiveness of Therapeutic Community Research in Europe: An Overview

“…Although the ambitions in most other European countries could not be the same as in Sweden because of financial and time limitations, many elements of the 'Swedate' research design can be transferred including: (1) apart from a fixed, initial choice of participating treatment programs, others were also invited to participate in the course of the study; (2) from a baseline sampling frame of 1,700 admissions to a single program, a total of 550 clients were chosen for follow-up interviews although the first intention was to follow up the entire group; because of several problems in the reliability of a simple random sample, a selection based on time periods was chosen -only first admissions to one program over a year were followed up; (3) data gathering was based on three interview forms that were created especially for the Swedate project; (4) complementing the data collected by the interviews, data contained in government case registers were used, and (5) interim results were reported in overviews, reports and/or seminars, most of them only in Swedish; [45] gives some results in English treating the interaction between treatment, client background and outcome in a 1-year followup; simple univariate and bivariate statistical analysis and multivariate cluster analysis were used for the study of the interaction between client background and treatment outcome.…”

Three-Year Follow-Up Study of Heroin Users in Bratislava

“…What might be more important is that the prospects for the lives of people with opiate dependence are not bleak in the socioeconomic conditions of a transforming Central European country. One can agree with Berglund et al [16] that follow-up which only takes into account abstinence from drugs generally produces a higher success rate, and if more and more criteria are included it decreases. As a health care service provider, we considered abstinence from the use of illicit opioids as a principal indicator of a successful outcome.…”