The Study Questionnaire Substance Use is a self-report assessment of the relationship between smoking and stimulant use as perceived by the respondent.

The Stroop Color-Word Test (SCWT; Stroop, 1935) is one of the oldest and most commonly used tests in psychology for examining executive functions and response inhibition. In the standard form of the task, a participant is asked to (1) read words that are the names of colors (i.e., word reading), (2) name the color of ink patches (i.e., color naming), and (3) name the color of the ink in which incongruent color words are printed.

Stimulant Selective Severity Assessment (SSSA; adapted from Kampman et al, 1998). The SSSA is an 18-item clinician-rated instrument assessing the signs and symptoms of stimulant (cocaine, methamphetamine and other stimulants) abstinence. It is derived from the Cocaine Selective Severity Assessment, which contains items that are most frequently associated with early cocaine abstinence. The items are rated on a scale from 0-7 (with higher scores indicating greater intensity or frequency) with a maximum possible score of 112. The CSSA, from which the SSSA is adapted, has been shown to have good inter-rater reliability (correlation coefficient = 0.92, p

Stimulant Craving Questionnaire-Brief (STCQ-Brief; adapted from Sussner et al, 2006). The STCQ-Brief is a 10-item self-report measure derived from the 10-item Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-Brief and the original 46-item Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-Now (Tiffany et al, 1998). The STCQ-Brief assesses current craving for stimulants (cocaine, methamphetamine and other stimulants) using a seven-point scale, with answers ranging from “strongly disagree” to strongly agree”. The CCQ-Brief, from which the STCQ-Brief is adapted, has high internal consistency, with Cronbach’s alpha ranging from 0.87 (Paliwal et al, 2008) to 0.90 (Sussner et al, 2006). The instrument also has good construct validity and has shown to correlate well with other craving measures (Paliwal et al, 2008).

The primary purpose of the State Administrator survey is to collect information regarding policies, regulations and funding related to Hepatitis C.

The SOCRATES (Miller and Tonigan 1996) is a 20-item self-report measure of clients’ readiness to change their substance use behaviors. Isenhardt (Isenhart 1994) used a modified version of the SOCRATES that includes references to drug use with a broader range of substance abusers. The current version has three subscales: Taking steps, Recognition of a problem, and Ambivalence. The instrument is intended to assess which of these stages the individual is in at the time of the assessment.

Quitting drug use will be measured using a modification of the Motivation Scales, including Drug Use Problems, Desire for Help, and Treatment Readiness, from the data instruments developed by Simpson et al. for the Drug Abuse Treatment, Assessment, and Research Project (Simpson, Joe, Broome et al., 1997). The instrument, SOC, has excellent predictive validity relative to treatment entry (Booth, Kwiatkowski, Iguchi, Pinto, & John, 1998) and its test-retest reliability is 90%. It will serve as a measure of the TA Intervention’s ability to increase motivation for treatment.

The Participant Satisfaction Survey (PSS) evaluates both global aspects of satisfaction with the STAGE-12 intervention and the perceived helpfulness of more specific aspects of the intervention. The general satisfaction items for this measure were modeled after those used in other brief measures of client satisfaction (e.g., Attkisson and Greenfield 1994; Attkisson and Greenfield 1999), particularly those used to assess participant satisfaction in Project MATCH (Donovan, Kadden et al. 2002) which also served as the source for the items used in the CTN protocol on motivational enhancement therapy with pregnant substance abusers (CTN0013). There are eight items in this section. Two items ask about the participants’ current condition and the change in their status since beginning treatment. The remaining six items ask participants to rate their overall satisfaction with the STAGE-12 intervention, the number of STAGE-12 individual and group counseling sessions, their STAGE-12 counselor, the extent to which the STAGE-12 intervention met their needs, and the extent to which they would return to the STAGE-12 program if they were to seek treatment in the future. The second section of the survey asks participants to rate how helpful they felt specific components of the STAGE-12 intervention were. These included their STAGE-12 counselor, the group meetings and individual counseling sessions, gaining a better understanding of 12-step programs and principles, assignments or “recovery tasks” to do between sessions, encouragement to attend 12-step meetings, arranging for an outside 12-step member to help get the participant to a meeting, and attending a 12-step meetings in the community.

This instrument assesses the frequency of attendance at a number of self-help groups (both 12-step – e.g., AA, NA, CA, CMA and non-12-step – e.g., Rational Recovery, Secular Organization for Sobriety) and the degree of participation in self-help activities in each of these groups (Weiss, Griffin et al. 1996).

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