Experiences of substance abusers from methadone maintenance therapy.

Abbas Shamsalinia, Kiyan Norouzi, Masoud Fallahi-Khoshknab, Ali Farhoudian, Fatemeh Ghaffari

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Article in Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed

1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

Nurse case management to improve the hepatitis C care continuum in HIV co-infection: Results of a randomized controlled trial.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2020
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The effectiveness of a transtheoretical model based on health education intervention on adherence to methadone maintenance treatment: a quasi-experimental study.BMC public health · 2025
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Identification of the socio-cultural barriers of drug addiction treatment in Iran.Heliyon · 2023
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"I don't want to take buprenorphine for the rest of my life": Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for a Client Struggling to Reduce Low-Dose Buprenorphine (a Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design).International journal of mental health and addiction · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Abbas ShamsaliniaRamsar Nursing Care Research Center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, School of Nursing and Midwifery. Babol, Mazandaran, Iran.

Kiyan NorouziNursing Department, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences. Tehran, Iran.

Masoud Fallahi-KhoshknabNursing Department, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences. Tehran, Iran.

Ali FarhoudianSubstance Abuse and Dependence Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Fatemeh GhaffariRamsar Nursing Care Research Center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, School of Nursing and Midwifery. Babol, Mazandaran, Iran.

University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Methadone maintenance therapyQualitative studySubstance abuse

Identifiers

PMID29445674

DOI10.14196/mjiri.31.45

PMCPMC5804444

OpenAlexW2753078852

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