Seeking the female (internal) condom in retail pharmacies: Experiences of adolescent mystery callers.

Background: Female (internal) condoms could be viable alternatives to male (external) condoms. Our objective was to describe barriers that adolescent mystery callers encountered when trying to access female condoms in U.S.

Availability and Accessibility of Emergency Contraception to Adolescent Callers in Pharmacies in Four Southwestern States.

Purpose: To evaluate the availability and accessibility of emergency contraception (EC) to adolescents in U.S. pharmacies across four Southwestern states, 3 years after the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed age restrictions for over-the-counter sales of levonorgestrel-only pills.

Addiction Severity Index (ASI) summary scores: comparison of the Recent Status Scores of the ASI-6 and the Composite Scores of the ASI-5.

The characteristics and the validity of the Recent Status Scores (RSSs), the new summary scores generated by the sixth version of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI-6), are compared to the fifth version of the ASI summary scores, the Composite Scores (CSs). A sample of 82 randomly selected patients from substance abuse treatment programs were interviewed with the ASI-6, the ASI-5 and were administered a validity battery of questionnaires that included measures corresponding to each of the ASI domains. Each ASI-6 RSS was significantly correlated with its corresponding ASI-5 CS.

Development and initial evaluation of the Brief Addiction Monitor (BAM).

This project developed and tested a 17-item monitoring instrument covering important substance use related behaviors to support measurement-based care and outcomes assessment. The study consisted of two phases, an instrument development phase and an initial study to examine its psychometric properties. Participants were 175 patients entering VA outpatient substance abuse treatment.

Psychometric properties of the sixth version of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI-6) in Brazil.

Background: There are few research tools in Brazil to assess more broadly the alcohol and other drug related problems.

Objective: To test the psychometric properties of ASI in its sixth version (ASI-6).

Methods: A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted in four Brazilian state capitals.