Page 163 - PhD GT

Table 7.2
Study participants traced at three month follow-up (t2)
Seen at follow-up
Level 1 follow-up
Level 2 follow-up
Level 3 follow-up
Seen - no follow-up data
Not seen at follow-up
Accounted for - not seen Not accounted for TOTAL
No. of attempts
107 100 30 n/a
n/a n/a
No. of participants
98 44 9 9
32 38 230
% Cumulative %
42.6 42.6 19.1 61.7 3.9 65.6 3.9 69.5
13.9 83.4 16.6 100 100 100
7.3.4 The process of follow-up at twelve months
A total of 152 individuals (66% of the original sample) were seen at the twelve month follow-up; of these 139 (60.4% of the original sample) completed the questionnaires and interview; thirteen participants did not complete the questionnaires; three of these were receiving treatment for their addiction at a different agency and no longer agreed to participate, 9 individuals simply stated they did not wish to participate and a further one was receiving treatment for a psychotic illness and therefore excluded from follow-up.
Of the 139 individuals who participated in follow-up, 85 (37% of the whole sample) were seen at the first attempt using the first level of follow-up. Of this number, 75 were seen at home and the remaining 10 requested to be seen at the clinic. A further six participants were contacted using one repeat of this method and one more using three repeats of this method. Thus 92 individuals were contacted using this method in a total of 100 attempts.
At the next level of follow-up, 42 participants were contacted after a total of 127 attempts; of this number, four were visited in prison. At the third level of sending out postal questionnaires, five participants were contacted following a total of 23 attempts at the levels one, two and three (see Table 7.3).
158