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ArticleThe American journal of drug and alcohol abuse2018

Working memory capacity and addiction treatment outcomes in adolescents.

Jon M Houck, Sarah W Feldstein Ewing

Open access · greenAbstract readControlled Clinical Trial
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Article in The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jon M Houcka Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , NM , USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6565-4481
Sarah W Feldstein Ewingb Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry , Oregon Health & Science University , Portland , OR , USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9120-9306
Oregon Health & Science University · USUniversity of New Mexico · US

Funding

AMICA: Assessing Fit of Motivational Interviewing by Cultures with AdolescentsR01AA017878 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI FELDSTEIN EWING, SARAH W. · 2009 to 2013
$2.3M
Deriving a de novo adolescent addiction treatment from developmental brain dataK24AA026876 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND · PI Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing · 2018 to 2026
$1.3M
Imaging Brain Activity in Substance Use TreatmentK01AA021431 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI HOUCK, JON M. · 2013 to 2017
$837k
The Effects of Client Change Talk on Risky Sexual BehaviorR03DA035690 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI HOUCK, JON M. · 2013 to 2014
$312k
NIAAA NIH HHS K01 AA021431NIAAA NIH HHS K24 AA026876NIAAA NIH HHS L30 AA026181NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA017878NIDA NIH HHS R03 DA035690
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBrief addiction treatments including motivational interviewing (MI) have shown promise with adolescents, but the factors that influence treatment efficacy in this population remain unknown. One candidate is working memory, the ability to hold a fact or thought in mind. This is relevant, as in therapy, a client must maintain and manipulate ideas while working with a clinician. Working memory depends upon brain structures and functions that change markedly during neurodevelopment and that can be negatively impacted by substance use.

objectivesIn a secondary analysis of data from a clinical trial for adolescent substance use comparing alcohol/marijuana education and MI, we evaluated the relationship between working memory and three-month treatment-outcomes with the hypothesis that the relationship between intervention conditions and outcome would be moderated by working memory.

methodsWith a diverse sample of adolescents currently using alcohol and/or marijuana (N = 153, 64.7% male, 70.6% Hispanic), we examined the relationship between baseline measures of working memory and alcohol and cannabis-related problem scores measured at the three-month follow-up.

resultsThe results showed that lower working memory scores were associated with poorer treatment response only for alcohol use, and only within the education group. No relationship was found between working memory and treatment outcomes in the MI group.

conclusionThe results suggest that issues with working memory capacity may interfere with adolescents' ability to process and implement didactic alcohol and marijuana content in standard education interventions. These results also suggest that MI can be implemented equally effectively across the range of working memory functioning in youth.

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Memory, Short-TermMotivational InterviewingAdolescentFemaleHumansMaleMarijuana SmokingPatient Education as TopicTreatment OutcomeUnderage DrinkingWechsler Scalesadolescentalcoholbrief interventionscannabisMotivational interviewingworking memory

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