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ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment2018

Two brief valid measures of therapeutic alliance in counseling for tobacco dependence.

Craig Warlick, Kimber P Richter, Delwyn Catley, Byron J Gajewski, Laura E Martin, Laura M Mussulman

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Article in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Craig WarlickDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, United States; Department of Educational Psychology, University of Kansas, 1122 W. Campus Rd. JRP Hall 621, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States. Electronic address: c981w725@kumc.edu.
Kimber P RichterDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, United States; University of Kansas Cancer Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, United States.
Delwyn CatleyDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2301 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO 64108, United States; Center for Children's Healthy Lifestyles and Nutrition Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gilham Road, Kansas City, MO 64108, United States.
Byron J GajewskiUniversity of Kansas Cancer Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, United States; Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, United States.
Laura E MartinDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, United States; Hoglund Brain Imaging Center, University of Kansas Hospital, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, United States.
Laura M MussulmanDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, United States; University of Kansas Cancer Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, United States.
University of Kansas Medical Center · USImaging Center · USThe University of Kansas Cancer Center · USUniversity of Kansas · USUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City · US

Funding

Changing the Default for Tobacco TreatmentR01HL131512 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI RICHTER, KIMBER P · 2016 to 2020
$3.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL131512
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Behavioral counseling is effective for smoking cessation and the psychotherapy literature indicates therapeutic alliance is key to counseling effectiveness. However, no tobacco-counseling specific measures of alliance exist that are suitable in most tobacco counseling contexts. This hinders assessment of counseling components in research and clinical practice. Based on the Working Alliance Inventory, and external expert review, we developed two alliance instruments: the 12-item and 3-item Working Alliance Inventory for Tobacco (WAIT-12 and WAIT-3). Two samples of 226 daily smokers via Amazon Mechanical Turk completed measures including demographics, tobacco characteristics, working alliance scales, and quit attempts. Both WAIT-12 and WAIT-3 had good to excellent internal consistency (0.92 and 0.88 for the WAIT-3 and 0.96 for the WAIT-12). The WAIT-12 1-factor model indicated poor fit (CFI=0.83, TLI=0.79, RMSEA=0.19, SRMR=0.09). The WAIT-12 3-factor model (CFI=0.94, TLI=0.93, RMSEA=0.11, SRMR=0.04) was indicative of acceptable fit. Both the WAIT-12 and the WAIT-3 were significantly associated with participants' self-reported cigarettes per day, quit attempts, and cessation. Initial validation of the WAIT-12 and WAIT-3 indicates they are psychometrically sound measures of tobacco dependence counseling alliance. The WAIT-3 provides brevity; it can be administered in under 1min. The WAIT-12 allows for assessment of specific components of therapeutic alliance. Overall, these instruments should allow for better measurement of alliance in clinical services and research.

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CounselingPsychometricsSurveys and QuestionnairesTherapeutic AllianceAdultFemaleHumansMaleReproducibility of ResultsTobacco Use DisorderPractice assessmentSmoking cessation treatmentWorking alliance

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PMID29415852
PMCPMC5810957
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