Motivation to maintain sobriety among residents of sober living recovery homes

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Table 1 Focus group questions

General questions

What do you think are the key factors that motivate residents to stay sober?

Do you think motivation varies depending on how long they have been at the sober living house?

Interpersonal influences

Are there ways that peer support influences motivation?

Are there ways that support from family and friends influences motivation?

Costs and benefits

(After defining costs and benefits as they are used on the Alcohol and Drug Consequences Questionnaire)

Both costs and benefits predicted outcome. What are your thoughts about that?

Moderating influences

Benefits had a stronger impact on residents who did not get involved in 12-step groups very much. What are your thoughts about that?

Residents with smaller social networks (defined as the number of important people in your life) had more sobriety overall than residents with large social networks. The exception was residents with large social networks also reported high benefits of sobriety.

What are your thoughts about that?

When we looked at persons with high psychiatric severity, we found costs but not benefits predicted outcome. We also found costs were much higher among those with high psychiatric severity. What are your thoughts about that?