Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment2012
Do 12-step meeting attendance trajectories over 9 years predict abstinence?
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Do young people benefit from AA as much, and in the same ways, as adult aged 30+? A moderated multiple mediation analysis.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Trial
- Alcohol and drug treatment involvement, 12-step attendance and abstinence: 9-year cross-lagged analysis of adults in an integrated health plan.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2014Trial
- Contingency management for patients with dual disorders in intensive outpatient treatment for addiction.Journal of dual diagnosis · 2014Trial
- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Peer Recovery Coaches for Addiction Recovery Among Indigenous Americans.Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses AssociationTrial
- Observations of substance use treatment engagement during the period of community re-entry following residential treatment.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Observational
- The Involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous Scale - Short Form: Factor Structure & Validation.Substance use & misuse · 2023Article
- The Beneficial Role of Involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous for Existential and Subjective Well-Being of Alcohol-Dependent Individuals? The Model Verification.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Transitions in alcohol use over time: a survival analysis.BMC psychology · 2020Article
- Is Alcoholics Anonymous religious, spiritual, neither? Findings from 25 years of mechanisms of behavior change research.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Review
- Examining Longitudinal Stimulant Use and Treatment Attendance as Parallel Outcomes in Two Contingency Management Randomized Clinical Trials.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2016Article
- Newcomers to Al-Anon family groups: Who stays and who drops out?Addictive behaviors · 2014Article
- Time to relapse following treatment for methamphetamine use: a long-term perspective on patterns and predictors.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Article
- Beyond bricks and mortar: recent research on substance use disorder recovery management.Current psychiatry reports · 2014Review
- Longitudinal study of urban American Indian 12-step attendance, attrition, and outcome.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2013Article
- Treatment seeking and subsequent 1-year drinking outcomes among treatment clients in Sweden and the U.S.A.: a cross-cultural comparison.Addictive behaviors · 2012Article
- Remission from alcohol and other drug problem use in public and private treatment samples over seven years.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2012Article
- Twelve-Step attendance trajectories over 7 years among adolescents entering substance use treatment in an integrated health plan.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2012Article
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Abstract
This study grouped treatment-seeking individuals (n = 1825) by common patterns of 12-step attendance using 5 waves of data (75% interviewed Year 9) to isolate unique characteristics and use-related outcomes distinguishing each class profile. The "high" class reported the highest attendance and abstention. The "descending" class reported high baseline alcohol severity, long treatment episodes, and high initial attendance and abstinence, but by Year 5, their attendance and abstinence dropped. The "early-drop" class, which started with high attendance and abstinence but with low problem severity, reported no attendance after Year 1. The "rising" class, with fairly high alcohol and psychiatric severity throughout, reported initially low attendance, followed by increasing attendance paralleling their abstention. Last, the "low" and "no" classes, which reported low problem severity and very low/no attendance, had the lowest abstention. Female gender and high alcohol severity predicted attendance all years. Consistent with a sustained benefit for 12-step exposure, abstinence patterns aligned much like attendance profiles.
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