ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2010
Validation of a contemplation ladder in an adult substance use disorder sample.
Article in Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05208593 (Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies and Thinking About the Past), which is not on this map. Cited by 32 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Study protocol: Community Links to Establish Alcohol Recovery (CLEAR) for women leaving jail.Contemporary clinical trials · 2017Trial
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- Effectiveness of different Web-based interventions to prepare co-smokers of cigarettes and cannabis for double cessation: a three-arm randomized controlled trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2014Trial
- Motivation to change alcohol use and treatment engagement in incarcerated youth.Addictive behaviors · 2011Trial
- Adolescent and parent motivation for change affects psychotherapy outcomes among youth with poorly controlled diabetes.Journal of pediatric psychologyTrial
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- Alcohol Attentional Bias Predicts Same-Day Desire to Get Drunk and Alcohol Consumption in Non-Treatment Seeking Young Adults Identified With Hazardous Alcohol Use in the Emergency Department.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
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Abstract
Developing brief measures of motivation to abstain from substance use that reliably predict treatment retention and outcome is a high priority in the addiction field. This study examined the psychometric properties of a contemplation ladder designed to assess readiness to abstain from alcohol and drug use respectively, on the basis of the contemplation ladder for smoking cessation developed by Biener and Abrams (1991). Participants were 394 substance-using male and female welfare recipients referred for treatment. The combined alcohol and other drug (AOD) ladder showed discriminant validity with demographic and health characteristics, convergent validity with conceptually related treatment motivation variables, concurrent validity with baseline AOD treatment and substance use variables, and predictive validity for participation in treatment services up to 1 month later and abstinence outcomes up to 1 year later. The AOD ladder showed predictive validity for those in drug-free treatment and no treatment at baseline but not for those in methadone maintenance.
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