| Abstract: | The Recovery Attitude and Treatment Evaluator-Research (RAATE-R) scale is a structured interview that assesses readiness for substance abuse treatment in five subscales: resistance to treatment, resistance to continuing care, biomedical acuity, psychological acuity, and environmental/social problems. Psychometric properties, based on an inter-rater reliability analysis of 23 raters and administration of the scale to 116 cocaine-dependent outpatients, included high interrater reliability, high internal consistency, independence of subscales, and a factor structure that partially supports the scale's original design. The authors discuss limitations of these conclusions and the lack of concurrent validity with a self-report measure of therapy readiness. |
