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Access to substance abuse, mental health services key to welfare reform.
2004 AUG 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Improving access by low-income women to substance abuse and mental health services is key to successful welfare reform in the United States, argue social workers at the University of Pittsburgh.
D. Rosen and colleagues studied low-income women's use of mental health, alcohol and drug treatment services. Their data came "from the Women's Employments Study, a study examining the barriers to employment for welfare recipients." The researchers "[compared] prevalence . . . of mental health disorders and service utilization with the National Comorbidity Survey."
According to their findings, "Fewer than one in five of the respondents with a current mental health and/or substance dependence problem in the Women's Employment Study (WES) received treatment in the past 12 months.
"A logistic regression model of the association among demographic variables, risk factors and service utilization in the WES found that having a co-occurring substance dependence and mental health disorder was significantly associated with receiving treatment. Those respondents with an ...
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