Journal article
Contingency management for treatment of substance use disorders: a meta-analysis
Addiction (Abingdon, England), Vol.101(11), pp.1546-1560
11/2006
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/107831
PMID: 17034434
Abstract
To examine the effectiveness of contingency management (CM) techniques in treating substance use disorders (i.e. illicit drugs, alcohol, tobacco).
Meta-analysis was used to determine the average effect size and potential moderators in 47 comparisons of the effectiveness of CM from studies based on a treatment-control group design and published between 1970 and 2002.
The mean effect size (ES) of CM was positive, with a magnitude of d = 0.42 using a fixed effects model. The magnitude of the ES declined over time, following treatment. CM was more effective in treating opiate use (d = 0.65) and cocaine use (d = 0.66), compared with tobacco (d = 0.31) or multiple drugs (d = 0.42). Larger effect sizes were associated with higher researcher involvement, earlier studies and shorter treatment duration.
Study findings suggest that CM is among the more effective approaches to promoting abstinence during the treatment of substance use disorders. CM improves the ability of clients to remain abstinent, thereby allowing them to take fuller advantage of other clinical treatment components.
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- Title
- Contingency management for treatment of substance use disorders: a meta-analysis
- Creators
- Michael Prendergast - Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. mlp@ucla.eduDeborah PodusJohn FinneyLisa GreenwellJohn Roll
- Publication Details
- Addiction (Abingdon, England), Vol.101(11), pp.1546-1560
- Academic Unit
- Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
- Publisher
- England
- Grant note
- R01-DA017407 / NIDA NIH HHS R01-DA017084 / NIDA NIH HHS
- Identifiers
- 99900547194401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article