Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2015
Posttreatment motivation and alcohol treatment outcome 9 months later: findings from structural equation modeling.
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- Effects of optimism and stage of change on alcohol use and problems among sexual minority men with HIV participating in a brief motivational interviewing intervention.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Trial
- Exploratory mixed methods analysis of self-authored content from participants in a digital alcohol intervention trial.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2023Trial
- Randomized controlled trial of motivational interviewing for alcohol and cannabis use within a predominantly Hispanic adolescent sample.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- The Effects of a Brief Motivational Intervention for Alcohol Use through Stages of Change among Nontreatment Seeking Injured Patients.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Trial
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- The role of the working alliance in treatment for alcohol problems.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2015Trial
- Examining differential responses to theAddictive behaviors reports · 2022Article
- Temporal pathways of change in two randomized controlled trials for depression and harmful drinking in Goa, India.Psychological medicine · 2020Article
- Motivation to change and posttreatment temptation to drink: a multicenter study among alcohol-dependent patients.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2017Article
- Cognitive and affective empathy in men with alcohol dependence: Relation with clinical profile, abstinence, and motivation.Indian journal of psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the association between posttreatment motivation to change as measured by the Readiness to Change Questionnaire Treatment Version and drinking outcomes 9 months after the conclusion of treatment for alcohol problems.
methodData from 392 participants in the United Kingdom Alcohol Treatment Trial were used to fit structural equation models investigating relationships between motivation to change pre- and posttreatment and 5 outcomes 9 months later. The models included pathways through changes in drinking behavior during treatment and adjustment for sociodemographic information.
resultsGreater posttreatment motivation (being in action vs. preaction) was associated with 3 times higher odds of the most stringent definition of positive outcome (being abstinent or entirely a nonproblem drinker) 9 months later (odds ratio = 3.10, 95% confidence interval [1.83, 5.25]). A smaller indirect effect of pretreatment motivation on this outcome was seen from pathways through drinking behavior during treatment and posttreatment motivation (probit coefficient = 0.08, 95% confidence interval [0.03, 0.14]). A similar pattern of results was seen for other outcomes evaluated.
conclusionPosttreatment motivation to change has hitherto been little studied and is identified here as a clearly important predictor of longer term treatment outcome.
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