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Prize Contingency Management For Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Trial, Nancy M. Petry, Sheila M. Alessi
Prize Contingency Management For Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Trial, Nancy M. Petry, Sheila M. Alessi
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Abstract
Background
Adjunctive behavioral smoking cessation treatments have the potential to improve outcomes beyond standard care. The present study had two aims: 1) compare standard care (SC) for smoking (four weeks of brief counseling and monitoring) to SC plus prize-based contingency management (CM), involving the chance to earn prizes on days with demonstrated smoking abstinence (carbon monoxide (CO) ≤6ppm); and 2) compare the relative efficacy of two prize reinforcement schedules - one a traditional CM schedule, and the second an early enhanced CM schedule providing greater reinforcement magnitude in the initial week of treatment but equal overall reinforcement.
Methods
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Contingency Management Delivered By Community Therapists In Outpatient Settings, Nancy M. Petry, Sheila M. Alessi
Contingency Management Delivered By Community Therapists In Outpatient Settings, Nancy M. Petry, Sheila M. Alessi
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Abstract
Background
Few community-based clinicians have been trained to deliver contingency management (CM) treatments, and little data exist regarding the efficacy of CM when administered by clinicians.
Method
Fifteen clinicians from four intensive outpatient treatment programs received training in CM. Following a didactics seminar and a period in which clinicians delivered CM to pilot patients while receiving weekly supervision, clinicians treated 43 patients randomized to standard care or CM, without supervision. In both treatment conditions, urine and breath samples were collected up to twice weekly for 12 weeks, and CM patients earned the opportunity to win prizes ranging in value …
Identifying Provider Beliefs Related To Contingency Management Adoption Using The Contingency Management Beliefs Questionnaire, Carla J. Rash, Nancy M. Petry
Identifying Provider Beliefs Related To Contingency Management Adoption Using The Contingency Management Beliefs Questionnaire, Carla J. Rash, Nancy M. Petry
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Abstract
Background
Contingency management (CM) is a widely recognized empirically-supported addiction treatment; however, dissemination and adoption of CM into routine clinical practice has been slow. Assessment of beliefs about CM may highlight key barriers and facilitators of adoption and inform dissemination efforts. In the present study, we developed a 35-item questionnaire (Contingency Management Beliefs Questionnaire; CMBQ) assessing CM beliefs and examined the relation of these beliefs to clinician characteristics and clinical practices.
Methods
The web-based study was completed by 617 substance abuse treatment providers. We examined the factor structure using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in a randomly selected half-sample ( …
The Impact Of Contingency Management On Quality Of Life Among Cocaine Abusers With And Without Alcohol Dependence, Nancy M. Petry, Sheila M. Alessi, Leonardo F. Andrade
The Impact Of Contingency Management On Quality Of Life Among Cocaine Abusers With And Without Alcohol Dependence, Nancy M. Petry, Sheila M. Alessi, Leonardo F. Andrade
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The use of quality of life measures (QOL) in substance abuse treatment research is important because it may lead to a broader understanding of patients’ health status and effects of interventions. Despite the high rates of comorbid cocaine and alcohol use disorders, little is known about the QOL of this population, and even less about the impact of an efficacious behavioral treatment, contingency management (CM), on QOL. In this study, data from three clinical trials were retrospectively analyzed to examine QOL in outpatient cocaine abusers with and without alcohol dependence (AD) and the impact of CM on QOL over time …
Increased Drinking In A Trial Of Treatments For Marijuana Dependence: Substance Substitution?, Ronald M. Kadden, Mark D. Litt, Elise Kabela-Cormier, Nancy M. Petry
Increased Drinking In A Trial Of Treatments For Marijuana Dependence: Substance Substitution?, Ronald M. Kadden, Mark D. Litt, Elise Kabela-Cormier, Nancy M. Petry
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This report examines whether participants in a study of treatments for marijuana dependence may have increased their use of alcohol when they reduced or ceased marijuana use. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four psychosocial treatments and followed at 3-month intervals for one-year. Findings are from 207 cases with data at posttreatment and at least one other follow-up. 73% of cases reported an increase of at least 10% in drinking days over their level at intake, and 65% reported an increase of at least 10% in drinks per drinking day. Drinking increases were not related to treatment condition nor …