g., frequency of interaction with www.selleckchem.com/products/ganetespib-sta-9090.html clinical supervisor, support from supervisor), health and well-being (e.g., physical complaints, psychological well-being), and the OASAS regulation. A trained research assistant proctored survey administration. Counselors and clinical supervisors completed surveys in separate group sessions. All counselors and clinical supervisors employed at the treatment centers were eligible to participate but participation was voluntary. All materials and procedures were reviewed and approved by the first author��s university. The response rate was 69% for counselors and 79% for clinical supervisors.

The survey items are two open-ended questions, which ask participants, ��What positive things (if any) have occurred as a result of the regulation?�� and ��What negative things (if any) have occurred as a result of the regulation?�� The following lead-in was included on the survey: ��On July 24, 2008, the NYS OASAS passed a regulation requiring all treatment programs certified or funded by the to be 100% tobacco-free. We are interested in your reaction to this regulation. Please think about how things have changed, for better or for worse, since the passage of the OASAS regulation.�� All comments were typed verbatim, organized into the categories of positive and negative consequences, and recorded separately for counselors and clinical supervisors. Content Analysis The purpose of the content analysis was to categorize responses to these two open-ended survey items, separately for counselors and clinical supervisors.

Two of the authors have extensive experience conducting content analysis. One of these two authors trained a third author in content analysis procedures over a 2-week period, following Weber��s (1990) and Krippendorff��s (1980) guidelines on conducting content analysis. The training consisted of practice coding text segments, reading primary texts, and discussion. Each open-ended comment was independently coded by two of the study authors. We used grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) as our content analysis strategy. This is an inductive approach whereby the coders did not go into the coding process with any a priori categorization scheme. Cilengitide Rather, the content codes emerged from recurring themes in the data. Coding Taxonomy The two coders independently reviewed the positive and negative comments provided by counselors and clinical supervisors and separately generated possible categories to capture the meaning reflected in similar groups of comments. After each researcher generated a list of possible categories, they shared their lists. Similarities among the independently generated categories were noted, and after several iterations, consensus was reached on the final taxonomy.