Motivational interview improves treatment entry in homeless veterans.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) has successfully been used to facilitate entry and compliance in drug and alcohol treatment programs. Some questions have been raised as to the effectiveness of MI in severely distressed populations. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of MI in a population of homeless, unemployed, and substance dependent veterans who are being wait-listed for entry into a residential treatment program.

Injury prevention instruction in the emergency department.

Study Objective: To describe preventable pediatric injuries and the proportion receiving documented injury prevention instruction by emergency department personnel.

Design: Retrospective chart review.

Setting: A rural Level I trauma center.

Factor analysis of reports of parental behavior by children living in divorced and married families.

To determine whether or not responses to the Child's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory (CRPBI) would yield similar factors for children living in divorced families and for children living in married families, responses to the 56-item six-scale version of the CRPBI were obtained from 29 children living with their divorced mothers and from 30 children living with their married parents. All children were between seven and 11 years of age. Socioeconomic characteristics of the two types of families were similar except for income.