Study title

Substance Abuse Treatment: Therapists of Inpatient Treatment Institutions 2008

Dataset ID Number

FSD2690

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2690

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Saarnio, Pekka (University of Tampere. Department of Social Policy and Social Work)

Other Identification/Acknowledgements

• Knuuttila, Vesa

Abstract

The data are part of Substance Abuse Treatment series, which comprises datasets that can be used in both quantitative and qualitative research.

The questionnaire in this dataset was filled in by therapists working in inpatient treatment facilities in Western and Southern Finland. The respondents were both permanent employees and substitutes with a minimum of one year's experience in substance abuse treatment. The number of therapists participating in the study in each facility varied from four to 19.

The respondents were first asked which treatment method or approach they themselves mostly used and how important they thought some often used methods or approaches were. Opinions were probed on whether the respondents would prefer to work with members of one sex over the other. The respondents were asked whether they had experienced sexual violence or abuse, had been exposed to someone's alcohol or drug problem as a child and had been interested in helping people as a child. The respondents' religiosity, enthusiasm for their work and personal experiences of recovering from substance abuse were investigated.

Those respondents with a history of substance abuse were asked further questions. These covered the age at which they had begun substance abuse, whether they had used substances daily, experiences of poly-drug use, serious health problems caused by substance abuse, close family members' substance abuse, the respondents' hyperactivity or conduct disorders as a child, and whether they had been sentenced for violent crime during their substance abuse.

Background variables included, among others, the respondent's age, gender, marital status, education and job title.

During the study, the respondents were also asked to respond to vignette questions, the answers to which are available in a separate dataset (FSD2691).

Keywords

alcoholism; childhood; drug abuse; occupational choice; personality; rehabilitation; social services; social workers

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Specific social services: use and availability (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Drug abuse, alcohol and smoking (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Substance Abuse Treatment

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

• Saarnio, Pekka (University of Tampere. Department of Social Policy and Social Work)
• Knuuttila, Vesa (University of Tampere. Department of Social Policy and Social Work)

Time Period Covered

2008

Collection Dates

2008

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Therapists working in inpatient treatment institutions in Western and Southern Finland which employed more than seven therapists.

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

FSD translates quantitative data into English on request, free of charge. More information on ordering data translation.

Data Version

1.0

Related Datasets

FSD2691 Substance Abuse Treatment: Inpatient Treatment Therapist Responses to Frame Stories 2008

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The variables P01-P30 are sum variables based on the PK5, which is a self-assessment test that is based on the Big Five model. There are 150 statements in the test and the respondent chooses the best describing alternative out of five (between "strongly agree"-"strongly disagree"). Familiarity with the PK5 personality test is required before the further use of these variables. For copyright reasons, FSD cannot disseminate the PK5 questionnaires as part of the other data.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Saarnio, Pekka (University of Tampere): Substance Abuse Treatment: Therapists of Inpatient Treatment Institutions 2008 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2012-01-13). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2690

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Publications

Saarnio, Pekka (2009) Suomalaisen päihdetyöntekijän muotokuva. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 74 (6), 632-643.

Saarnio, Pekka (2010) Big five personality traits and interpersonal functioning in female and male substance abuse therapists. Substance Use & Misuse 45 (10), 1463-1473.

Saarnio, Pekka (2011) The relationship between general therapeutic orientation, big five personality traits and interpersonal functioning in substance abuse therapists: An explorative study. Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment 10 (1), 29-36.

Saarnio, Pekka (2011) Therapists' big five personality traits and interpersonal functioning in the substance abuse field: A cluster-analytic study. Journal of Substance Use 16 (5), 348-358.

Saarnio, Pekka (2011) Therapist's preference on motivational interviewing and its relationship to interpersonal functioning and personality traits. Counselling Psychology Quaterly 24 (3), 171-180.

Saarnio, Pekka (2010). Personality traits and interpersonal functioning in substance abuse therapists with and without personal recovery status. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 28:451-463. DOI: 10.1080/07347324.2010.511077