A move from describing to evaluating the effectiveness of Indigenous drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation services: a systematic review.

CONCLUSION: There are few published studies on Indigenous drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation services, an average of one paper per annum internationally, and only one treatment outcome evaluation. Three key features of the reviewed papers included (i) studied services were mostly located in regional areas; (ii) services provided multi-component programs, with little alignment between the models of care of other services; and (iii) the majority used qualitative, rather than quantitative methods. Client outcomes will likely improve if future research can establish best-practice, culturally acceptable models of care and increase the application of evidence-based, culturally validated quantitative evaluation measures to complement existing qualitative research. PMID: 29714152 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Drug Abuse Reviews - Category: Addiction Tags: Curr Drug Abuse Rev Source Type: research