ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment2018
Individual versus group female-specific cognitive behavior therapy for alcohol use disorder.
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 18 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.
- Group cognitive behavioral therapy as an effective approach for patients with alcohol dependence: A perspective study.Medicine · 2022Trial
- Women's and men's experiences in group therapy for substance use disorders: A qualitative analysis.The American journal on addictions · 2022Trial
- Targeting women veteran's stress-induced drinking with cognitive reappraisal: Mechanisms and moderators of change.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Trial
- Optimizing the length and reliability of measures of mechanisms of change to support measurement-based care in alcohol use disorder treatment.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Trial
- Cost-effectiveness of individual versus group female-specific cognitive behavioral therapy for alcohol use disorder.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- Moderators of sudden gains after sessions addressing emotion regulation among women in treatment for alcohol use.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2017Trial
- Recommendations for the Design and Implementation of Alcohol Pharmacotherapy Trials: Perspectives of Women With HIV Participating in the WHAT-IF Study.Journal of addiction medicineTrial
- Telehealth engagement and treatment strategies for adults living with alcohol use disorder: A sequential multiple assignment randomized trial protocol.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- A narrative review on alcohol use in women: insight into the telescoping hypothesis from a biopsychosocial perspective.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2025Review
- Experiences with Take it Personal!+ from People with Mild Intellectual Disability or Borderline Intellectual Functioning and Substance Use Disorder and Their Confidants: A Qualitative Study.Journal of mental health research in intellectual disabilities · 2025Article
- Alcohol Treatment Access and Engagement Among Women in the USA: a Targeted Review of the Literature 2012-2022.Current addiction reports · 2023Article
- Eating disorders and physical multimorbidity in the English general population.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Article
- Remotely Assessing Mechanisms of Behavioral Change in Community Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Facilitate Measurement-Informed Care: Pilot Longitudinal Questionnaire Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Drinking to Fit in: The Effects of Drinking Motives and Self-Esteem on Alcohol Use among Female College Students.Substance use & misuse · 2022Article
- Smoking characteristics and alcohol use among women in treatment for alcohol use disorder.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Treatment Interventions for Women With Alcohol Use Disorder.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2020Review
- Changes in Hypothesized Mechanisms of Change Before and After Initiating Abstinence in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Women With Alcohol Use Disorder.Behavior therapy · 2019Article
- Sex differences in stress-related alcohol use.Neurobiology of stress · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesTo test group-based Female-Specific Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (G-FS-CBT) for women with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) against an individual Female-Specific Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-FS-CBT). This aims of this paper are to describe G-FS-CBT development, content, feasibility, acceptability, group process, engagement in treatment, and within- and post-treatment outcomes.
methodsWomen with AUD (n=155) were randomly assigned to 12 manual-guided sessions of G-FS-CBT or I-FS-CBT; 138 women attended at least one treatment session.
resultsWomen in G-FS-CBT attended fewer sessions (M=7.6) than women in I-FS-CBT (M=9.7; p<.001). Women in both conditions reported high satisfaction with the treatments. Independent coders rated high fidelity of delivery of both G-FS-CBT and I-FS-CBT. Therapeutic alliance with the therapist was high in both conditions, with I-FS-CBT being slightly but significantly higher than G-FS-CBT. In the first six weeks of treatment, women in both treatment conditions significantly reduced their percent drinking days (PDD) and percent heavy days drinking (PHD) by equivalent amounts, maintained through the rest of treatment and the 12month follow up with no treatment condition effects. Women reported significant improvement in all but one of the secondary outcomes during treatment; gains made during treatment in depression, anxiety, autonomy, and interpersonal problems were maintained during the follow-up period, while gains made during treatment in use of coping skills, self-efficacy for abstinence, self-care, and sociotropy deteriorated over follow up but remained improved compared to baseline.
conclusionsFindings support the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a group format for female-specific CBT for AUD, a new 12-session, single gender, community friendly, group therapy with programming specifically for women. Similar, positive outcomes for individual and group treatment formats were found for drinking, mood, coping skills, self-confidence, interpersonal functioning, and self-care.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.