Rosemeri Pedroso, Luciana Zanetello, Luciano Guimarães, Márcia Pettenon, Veralice Gonçalves, Juliana Scherer, Felix Kessler, Flavio Pechansky
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Unidade Álvaro Alvim, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Abstract:
Background: When it comes to crack/drug use, relapse is a relatively common event in the first weeks after the end of treatment. However little is known about what happens to patients who relapse after discharge. Objective: To report the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the Crack Use Relapse Scale (CURS) in an inpatient population. Methods: A five-point Likert scale with 25 items and, initially, 9 theoretical factors was generated and utilized in a cross-sectional study with a sample of 333 hospitalized male crack users. Results: CFA indicated a well-fitting model for the CURS. Discussion: The CFA shows that the CURS model is appropriate and well-fitting for assessment of latent variables common to psychiatric and psychological constructs – in this case, relapse of crack cocaine use after inpatient treatment.
Keywords:Crack cocaine, drug, substance abuse, relapse, inpatient, scale.