SynthesisAddiction (Abingdon, England)2014
Prize-based contingency management for the treatment of substance abusers: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 141 papers, 15 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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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.
Encouraging Opioid Abstinence Behavior: Incentivizing Inputs and Outcomes - Pilot
Screen, Treat and Retain Meth-using People With Opioid Use Disorders at Methadone Clinics
Encouraging Abstinence Behavior in a Drug Epidemic: Optimizing Dynamic Incentives
Encouraging Abstinence Behavior in a Drug Epidemic: Does Age Matter?
Who cites it
141 citing papers in PubMed, 15 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Financial Incentives for Substance Abstinence: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of remotely delivered contingency management treatment for substance use.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Pooled it
- Do financial incentives increase mental health treatment engagement? A meta-analysis.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Contingency management for treatment attendance: A meta-analysis.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Pooled it
- Long-term efficacy of contingency management treatment based on objective indicators of abstinence from illicit substance use up to 1 year following treatment: A meta-analysis.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Pooled it
- More behavioral recommendations produce more change: A meta-analysis of efficacy of multibehavior recommendations to reduce nonmedical substance use.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Pooled it
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- Psychological interventions for co-occurring depression and substance use disorders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- "I's" on the prize: A systematic review of individual differences in Contingency Management treatment response.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Pooled it
- Association between alcoholic interventions and abstinence rates for alcohol use disorders: A meta-analysis.Medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Contingency Management interventions for non-prescribed drug use during treatment for opiate addiction: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2017Pooled it
- Substance Abuse Treatment Patients in Housing Programs Respond to Contingency Management Interventions.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2017Pooled it
- A review of the literature on contingency management in the treatment of substance use disorders, 2009-2014.Preventive medicine · 2016Pooled it
- Retention in medication-assisted treatment for opiate dependence: A systematic review.Journal of addictive diseases · 2016Pooled it
- The ASAM/AAAP Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Stimulant Use Disorder.Journal of addiction medicineGuideline
- Social media interventions and the moderation of baseline substance use: A secondary data analysis.Addictive behaviors · 2026Trial
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- A randomized controlled trial to assess whether a telehealth-based contingency management intervention reduces alcohol use for individuals with alcohol use disorder.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Trial
- Examining changes in pain interference via pandemic-induced isolation among patients receiving medication for opioid use disorder: a secondary data analysis.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- How We Lost 90% of Participants on a Bad Bet: Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial on Cognitive Bias Modification in Problem Gamblers.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Trial
81 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
aimTo review randomized controlled trials to assess efficacy of a prize-based contingency management procedure in reducing substance use (where a drug-free breath or urine sample provides a chance of winning a prize).
methodsA meta-analysis was conducted on papers published from January 2000 to February 2013 to determine the effect size of studies comparing prize-based contingency management to a treatment-as-usual control condition (k = 19 studies). Parallel analyses evaluated the efficacy of both short- (k = nine studies) and long-term outcomes (k = six studies) of prize-based contingency management.
resultsThe average end-of-treatment effect size (Cohen's d) was 0.46 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.37, 0.54]. This effect size decreased at the short-term (≤3-month) post-intervention follow-up to 0.33 (95% CI = 0.12, 0.54) and at the 6-month follow-up time-point there was no detectable effect [d = -0.09 (95% CI = -0.28, 0.10)].
conclusionAdding prize-based contingency management to behavioral support for substance use disorders can increase short-term abstinence, but the effect does not appear to persist to 6 months.
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