The present study examines whether changes in SOC predict changes in substance use, or whether changes in substance use predict changes in SOC.
However, participant ratings of the importance of change or of the helpfulness of personalized normed feedback were unrelated to changes in substance use frequency.
Conversely, pathways b and d test the crime-causes-drugs model, whereby getting arrested affects changes in substance use since the previous interview.
Motivational Assessment Program to Initiate Treatment (MAPIT) is a multisite clinical trial intended to motivate probationers to make early changes in substance use, treatment initiation, and other behaviors related to probation success.
Whereas much research regarding combat personnel is based on post-experience data, this study's design uses both pre- and post-deployment data to identify the association between different types of combat experiences and changes in substance use and misuse.
We rely on data from the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) evaluation and employ cross-lagged panel models to examine short-term changes in substance use and crime over time among a large sample of high-risk, former prisoners (N = 1697).
Furthermore, we were unable to examine either the stability of substance use or temporal changes in substance use.
Questions about substance misuse (particularly recent changes in substance use), alongside assessment of suicidality, may also serve as key signposts.
Secondary outcomes concern changes in substance use related cognitions including the constructs of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, implementation intentions, and stages of change.
