Trial reportDrug and alcohol dependence2018
Randomized controlled trial of a positive affect intervention for methamphetamine users.
Trial report in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 38 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Randomized Controlled Trial of an Integrative Intervention for Non-Treatment-Seeking Meth Users
Reducing Co-occurring Substance Use and HIV Risk Among Stimulant-using Men at High Risk for HIV in the United States of America.
Who cites it
38 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
- Positive psychological interventions for substance use, addiction and recovery: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Evidence from high-income countries on the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions to improve mental health, wellbeing and quality of life for adults living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2025Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for stimulant use disorder.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Response styles to positive affect during a positive psychology intervention for veterans with PTSD and moral injury: Preliminary results from a moral elevation intervention pilot trial.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2025Trial
- A randomized feasibility study of a positive psychology journaling intervention to support recovery from substance-use disorders.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Trial
- Tina's ParTy line: Polysubstance use patterns in sexual minority men living with HIV who use methamphetamine.Drug and alcohol review · 2022Trial
- An autoregressive cross-lagged model unraveling co-occurring stimulant use and HIV: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Trial
- Blue Monday: Co-occurring Stimulant Use and HIV Persistence Predict Dysregulated Catecholamine Synthesis.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2021Trial
- Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Syndemics Intervention with HIV-Positive, Cocaine-Using Women.AIDS and behavior · 2019Trial
- A positive emotion regulation intervention for bipolar I disorder: Treatment development and initial outcomes.General hospital psychiatryTrial
- Cost-effectiveness of contingency management for methamphetamine use disorder: A model-based analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Multi-method Analysis of Implementation Determinants and Strategies to Support the Implementation of Contingency Management for Methamphetamine Use in an HIV Care Setting.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
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- Disruption of Dopamine Homeostasis by Psychostimulants.Molecular neurobiology · 2026Review
- Body talk: Correlates of gut-immune dysregulation phenotypes in people living with HIV who use methamphetamine.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Narratives of Disconnection: A Life Course Perspective of Methamphetamine Use Among Sexual Minority Men Living with HIV.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Provider Perspectives on Multi-level Barriers and Facilitators to PrEP Access Among Latinx Sexual and Gender Minorities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Neighborhood-level adversity and inflammation among sexual minority men living with HIV.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Collective efficacy: A protective factor for sexual minority men during the U.S. mpox outbreak.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Relations Between Optimism-Pessimism and Loneliness in Sexually Minoritized Men: The Moderating Role of Chronicity-Based Discrimination.Journal of homosexuality · 2025Article
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Authors and funding
13 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundContingency management (CM) is an evidence-based intervention providing rewards in exchange for biomarkers that confirm abstinence from stimulants such as methamphetamine. We tested the efficacy of a positive affect intervention designed to boost the effectiveness of CM with HIV-positive, methamphetamine-using sexual minority men.
methodsThis attention-matched, randomized controlled trial of a positive affect intervention delivered during CM was registered on www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01926184). In total, 110 HIV-positive sexual minority men with biologically confirmed, recent methamphetamine use were enrolled. Five individual sessions of a positive affect intervention (n = 55) or an attention-control condition (n = 55) were delivered during three months of CM. Secondary outcomes examined over the 3-month intervention period included: 1) psychological processes relevant to affect regulation (i.e., positive affect, negative affect, and mindfulness); 2) methamphetamine craving; 3) self-reported stimulant use (past 3 months); and 4) cumulative number of urine samples that were non-reactive for stimulants (i.e., methamphetamine and cocaine) during CM.
resultsThose randomized to the positive affect intervention reported significant increases in positive affect during individual sessions and increases in mindfulness over the 3-month intervention period. Intervention-related improvements in these psychological processes relevant to affect regulation were paralleled by concurrent decreases in methamphetamine craving and self-reported stimulant use over the 3-month intervention period.
conclusionsDelivering a positive affect intervention may improve affect regulation as well as reduce methamphetamine craving and stimulant use during CM with HIV-positive, methamphetamine-using sexual minority men.
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