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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019

Improved Quality of Life Following Addiction Treatment Is Associated with Reductions in Substance Use.

Victoria Manning, Joshua B B Garfield, Tina Lam, Steve Allsop, Lynda Berends, David Best, Penny Buykx, Robin Room, Dan I Lubman

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Victoria ManningMonash Addiction Research Centre, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, 110 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia. victoria.manning@monash.edu.
Joshua B B GarfieldMonash Addiction Research Centre, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, 110 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5076-6499
Tina LamMonash Addiction Research Centre, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, 110 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia.
Steve AllsopNational Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, 2 Building 609, Curtin University, 7 Parker Place, Bentley 6102, Australia.
Lynda BerendsTRACE Research, 1/209 Nicholson St, Footscray, Victoria 3011, Australia.
David BestDepartment of Law, Criminology, and Community Justice, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard St, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK.
Penny BuykxSchool of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan 2308, Australia.
Robin RoomCentre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086 Australia.
Dan I LubmanMonash Addiction Research Centre, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, 110 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6747-1937

Funding

Commonwealth Department of Health, Australia N.A.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

People seeking treatment for substance use disorders (SUD) ultimately aspire to improve their quality of life (QOL) through reducing or ceasing their substance use, however the association between these treatment outcomes has received scant research attention. In a prospective, multi-site treatment outcome study ('Patient Pathways'), we recruited 796 clients within one month of intake from 21 publicly funded addiction treatment services in two Australian states, 555 (70%) of whom were followed-up 12 months later. We measured QOL at baseline and follow-up using the WHOQOL-BREF (physical, psychological, social and environmental domains) and determined rates of "SUD treatment success" (past-month abstinence or a statistically reliable reduction in substance use) at follow-up. Mixed effects linear regression analyses indicated that people who achieved SUD treatment success also achieved significantly greater improvements in QOL, relative to treatment non-responders (all four domains

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abstinenceaddictionalcohol and drugsquality of lifereduced substance usesubstance use disordersubstance use treatmenttreatment outcome

Identifiers

PMID31500211
PMCPMC6780566

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