Trial reportAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2013
Pretreatment alcohol drinking goals are associated with treatment outcomes.
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- Continuous Abstinence During Early Alcohol Treatment is Significantly Associated with Positive Treatment Outcomes, Independent of Duration of Abstinence.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2017Trial
- Drinking goal choice and outcomes in a Web-based alcohol intervention: results from VetChange.Addictive behaviors · 2015Trial
- Predictors of pretreatment commitment to abstinence: results from the COMBINE study.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2014Trial
- Mapping and measuring addiction recovery: Recommended protocols through the PHENX toolkit.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Review
- Second-wave mutual-help groups: Examining effectiveness for individuals with alcohol use disorders in the longitudinal, U.S. national PAL Study cohorts.The International journal on drug policy · 2026Article
- Using machine learning to examine predictors of treatment goal change among individuals seeking treatment for alcohol use disorder.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
- The Role of Daily Goal Setting Among Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
- Examining a brief measure and observed cutoff scores to identify reward and relief drinking profiles: Psychometric properties and pharmacotherapy response.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Expanding the continuum of substance use disorder treatment: Nonabstinence approaches.Clinical psychology review · 2022Review
- What do elderly problem drinkers aim for? Choice of goal for treatment among elderly treatment-seeking alcohol-dependent patients.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2019Article
- Acceptability of nonabstinent treatment outcome goals among addiction treatment providers in Ukraine.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
- Alcohol treatment goal choice predicts longitudinal drinking outcomes in adolescent substance users.Journal of child & adolescent substance abuse · 2018Article
- Abstinence versus Moderation Goals in Brief Motivational Treatment for Pathological Gambling.Journal of gambling studies · 2015Article
- Recovery Goals and Long-term Treatment Preference in Persons Who Engage in Nonmedical Opioid Use.Journal of addiction medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundA large subset of patients who enter treatment for alcohol dependence report nonabstinent drinking goals (e.g., reduction in drinking) rather than abstinence, and this pretreatment goal choice may be associated with drinking outcomes and alcohol-related problems.
methodsAn analysis of the 16-week Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Interventions (COMBINE) study was conducted to determine the association between self-reported pretreatment drinking goal and drinking outcomes and alcohol-related problems. Participants who reported a nonabstinent drinking goal (n = 340) were matched with participants who reported an abstinent drinking goal (n = 340) on 3 variables believed to contribute to treatment outcomes: COMBINE experimental group, gender, and number of prebaseline heavy drinking days.
resultsAnalyses revealed no interaction between the COMBINE experimental group and drinking goal on outcome measures, so results were collapsed and examined as a function of drinking goal group. Participants who chose an abstinent drinking goal had significantly more weeks with no drinking or no heavy drinking, reported fewer heavy drinking days, reported fewer days with >1 drink, and were more likely to have a ≥50% decrease in drinks per day between baseline and week 16 of the intervention. However, both groups reported reductions over time in percent drinking days, mean drinks per day, number of heavy drinking days, and number of drinking days per week, and participants in both groups experienced significant reductions in alcohol-related problems and improvements in psychosocial functioning.
conclusionsResults replicate and expand upon previous studies examining the association between drinking goal and treatment outcome. These data also provide support for the standard inclusion of drinking treatment goal as a stratification variable in study interventions or as a covariate in outcome analyses and highlight several areas that warrant additional research regarding patients who enter alcohol treatment with a nonabstinent drinking goal.
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