Tvångsvårdade och frivilligt vårdade män - en komparativ studie vid fem SIS-institutioner
Engelsk titel: Compulsory and voluntary care for men - a comparative study at five SIS institutions
Författare:
Larsson J
;
Segraeus V
Email: jonas.larsson@stat.su.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 27
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 08095258
Sammanfattning
Aims: Treatment outcomes for four different client groups treated in compulsory treatment
institutions (SiS-institutions) are studied. One group is treated voluntarily while three groups
are compulsorily treated. Similarities and differences in housing, social networks, health and
substance abuse for the four groups are being compared both before and after treatment.
Data Methods: The study includes 136 male clients from five SiS-institutions. All clients were discharged
from the institution during a one year period in 1999-2000. Data were gathered at intake and
at a follow-up interview six months after they left the treatment institution.
Results: Relapses are most common among the clients who are taken into treatment according to a
planned compulsory treatment, according to the Act on Care of Addicts in Certain Cases.
Their social situation is most difficult and their abuse the most serious. For the clients taken
into compulsory treatment in an acute situation, for further assessment, the results are the
same whether they were assessed as not needing further treatment or whether they were
sentenced to compulsory treatment. At intake, the voluntarily treated had a better housing
situation and economy than the compulsorily treated. Among the voluntarily treated, abuse is
less common after treatment than it is among the compulsorily treated.
Conclusions: There are differences between the compulsorily and the voluntarily treated clients as well as
between different groups of compulsorily treated in housing situations, health and abuse both
at the time of intake and at follow-up.