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Trial reportJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2008

Lapses following alcohol treatment: modeling the falls from the wagon.

Katie Witkiewitz

Open access · greenAbstract readComparative StudyMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Predictors of heavy drinking during and following treatment.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2011
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  12. Alcohol use disorders and the heart.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2019
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  15. Alcohol Relapse and Change Needs a Broader View than Counting Drinks.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katie WitkiewitzUniversity of Washington, Box 354805, 1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 120, Seattle, Washington 98105-4631, USA. kate19@u.washington.edu
University of Washington · US

Funding

Modeling Individual Heterogeneity in the Alcohol Relapse ProcessR03AA016322 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WITKIEWITZ, KATIE · 2006 to 2007
$135k
NIAAA NIH HHS R03 AA016322NIAAA NIH HHS R03 AA016322-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study investigated transitions between drinking and nondrinking during the first 12 months following treatment and whether transitions in posttreatment drinking are related to alcohol-dependence symptoms.

methodData from individuals in the outpatient (n = 952) and aftercare (n = 774) arms of Project MATCH (Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity) were included in the analyses. Drinking consequences, percentage of drinking days, and drinks per drinking day were used as indicators of drinking behavior. Latent transition analysis was used to estimate a model of drinking patterns, defined by transition probabilities between drinking classes, from immediately following treatment to 6 and 12 months following treatment.

resultsAcross both aftercare and outpatient samples, three drinking classes were identified at each time point: frequent heavy drinking with high consequences, moderate infrequent drinking with low consequences, and nondrinking with low consequences. Many participants maintained nondrinking, and, of those who drank, there was a trend toward transitioning to less drinking over time. Transition probabilities were noninvariant across treatment arms: The probability of transitioning from moderate drinking to frequent drinking was more than six times more likely in the aftercare arm, as compared with the outpatient arm. In both samples the transition to heavy drinking and membership in the heavy-drinking class were significantly positively related to alcohol dependence symptoms. There were no differences across MATCH treatment groups.

conclusionsThis study examined transitions in post treatment drinking and the role of alcohol dependence in predicting posttreatment drinking. The results suggest a low probability of moderate drinking among individuals with greater alcohol dependence.

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Alcoholics AnonymousBehavior TherapyCognitive Behavioral TherapyModels, StatisticalMotivationAdultAftercareAlcohol DrinkingAlcoholismAmbulatory CareCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedProbability

Identifiers

PMID18612576
PMCPMC2721009
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