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ArticleInternational journal of mental health and addiction2018

Comprehensive Women-Centered Treatment for Psychoactive Substance Use in the Republic of Georgia: Outcomes of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Irma Kirtadze, David Otiashvili, Kevin E O'Grady, William Zule, Evgeny Krupitsky, Wendee Wechsberg, Hendrée E Jones

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Article in International journal of mental health and addiction, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Irma KirtadzeAddiction Research Center, Alternative Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
David OtiashviliAddiction Research Center, Alternative Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Kevin E O'GradyDepartment of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD USA.
William ZuleSubstance Use, Gender and Applied Research, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC USA.
Evgeny KrupitskyDepartment of Addictions, Bekhterev Research Psychoneurological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Wendee WechsbergSubstance Use, Gender and Applied Research, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC USA.
Hendrée E JonesUNC Horizons, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC USA.
RTI International · USIlia State University · GESt.Petersburg V.M.Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute · RUUniversity of Maryland, College Park · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

HIV and Drug Use in Georgian WomenR01DA029880 · NIDA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI JONES, HENDREE E · 2010 to 2014
$2.0M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA029880
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to assess the impact of a culturally sensitive, comprehensive women-centered intervention on psychoactive substance use among women in the Republic of Georgia. Study participants included 128 women who had injected psychoactive substance(s) in the past 30 days and had enrolled in a randomized controlled trial that compared Reinforcement Based Treatment and the Women's CoOp (RBT+WC) to usual care (UC). RBT+WC provided a structured 12-session intervention designed to reduce HIV/HCV risk and psychoactive substance and alcohol use, and to improve mental and physical health; whereas UC provided information booklets on the same topics and case management for 12 sessions. Urine drug screening was conducted at baseline, treatment completion, and 3-month follow-up. The findings showed that RBT+WC was not more effective than UC, although both treatments positively impacted opioid, benzodiazepine, and amphetamine/methamphetamine use. The findings suggest that RBT+WC represents a promising comprehensive women-centered intervention for reducing substance use and HIV risks for Georgian women who use substances.

Indexed as

HIV preventionInjection drug useRepublic of GeorgiaRisky injection behaviorWomen-centered intervention

Identifiers

PMID33312083
PMCPMC7731585
OpenAlexW2777971290

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Registered trials

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