Psychosocial, cognitive and personality factors associated with adherence to treatment in therapeutic communities

Authors

  • Miguel Ángel Hernández Serrano
  • Nora Helena Londoño Arredondo Universidad de San Buenaventura, Medellín

Keywords:

adicciones, comunidad terapéutica, adherencia

Abstract

Different studies have related adherence treatment with success and not success in therapy, along with features such as length of stay, prior motivation, facing more effective and efficient coping styles.This study indentified psychosocial, cognitive and personality factors associated with adherence to treatmentin therapeutic communities in Colombia. Sample: 443 participants (373 men and 70 women), mean age 18 years (DE 5.9, range 11-50 years). Instruments: CMRS adhesion, Life Events Scale, YSQ Young Schema Questionnaire, Questionnaire of belief personality disorders CCE-TP, Coping Strategies Scale CS-M, Toxicology Chart. Procedure: For the statistical analysis the group was divided into two: high adhesion and lower adhesion. Results: A high association of adherence and length of stay. The discriminant function predictor for high adhesion: search for professional support strategy, obsessive-compulsive personality, positive re-evaluation, and age as a demographic variable, vulnerability to injury and disease, and negatively, autonomy and troubleshooting. The prognostic rate of the discriminant function was 67.72%.

Author Biography

Nora Helena Londoño Arredondo, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Medellín

Docente investigadora, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Medellín.

Published

2012-03-30

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