Substance-dependence rehab treatment in Thailand: a meta analysis.

Objective: To synthesize the substance-dependence researches focusing on rehab treatment phase.

Material And Method: Several criteria were used to select studies for meta analysis. Firstly, the research must have focused on the rehab period on the substance-dependence treatment, secondly, only quantitative researches that used statistics to calculate effect sizes were selected, and thirdly, all researches were from Thai libraries and were done during 1997-2006.