Jason Leonard A, Bobak Ted, Islam Mohammed, Guerrero Mayra, Light John M
DePaul University, Chicago, USA.
Oregon Research Institute, Oregon, USA.
Int Med (Antioch). 2021;3(4):122-128. doi: 10.5455/im.79688.
Recovery homes provide supportive settings for thousands of individuals with substance use disorders each year. However, not all residents of recovery homes improve in these settings, and the reasons for both improvement and lack of improvement are still unclear. It is possible that those low in recovery might benefit when they are in settings with high recovery residents.
We examined social network ties among 19 recovery home settings that had pairings of low and high recovery residents.
We found that low recovery factor individuals generally increased their recovery factor scores over time. In the cases where recovery factor scores did not increase, the low recovery factor individuals had few social network ties with the high recovery residents.
Both selection and influence can likely be factors that affect recovery behavior in these social settings, as residents may select friends who already exhibit similar behaviors as their own or be influenced by friends to adjust their behavior, so it is more like that of the group. A dynamic systems-based perspective can help investigators better understand how recovery-related behaviors and social relationships co-evolve, and how individual characteristics and house-level social structures can link to changes in individuals' recovery.
康复之家每年为成千上万患有物质使用障碍的人提供支持性环境。然而，并非所有康复之家的居民在这些环境中都能得到改善，改善和未改善的原因仍不明确。康复程度低的人在与康复程度高的居民共处的环境中可能会受益。
我们研究了19个康复之家环境中康复程度低和高的居民配对之间的社会网络联系。
我们发现，康复因素得分低的个体通常会随着时间推移提高其康复因素得分。在康复因素得分没有提高的情况下，康复因素得分低的个体与康复程度高的居民之间的社会网络联系很少。
选择和影响都可能是影响这些社会环境中康复行为的因素，因为居民可能会选择与自己已经表现出相似行为的朋友，或者受到朋友的影响来调整自己的行为，使其更像群体中的行为。基于动态系统的观点可以帮助研究人员更好地理解与康复相关的行为和社会关系是如何共同演变的，以及个体特征和家庭层面的社会结构如何与个体康复的变化相联系。
