SynthesisJournal of substance abuse treatment2022
Contingency management for treatment attendance: A meta-analysis.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Web-Based Application for Reducing Methamphetamine Use Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Randomized Waitlist Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Discrete Choice Experiment on Financial Incentives for Engaging Young Adults in Vaping Cessation Programs.Substance use & misuse · 2025Trial
- Feasibility of a telehealth-based contingency management intervention for alcohol use disorders using the phosphatidylethanol (PEth) 16:0/18:1 alcohol biomarker: a pilot randomized trial.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2024Trial
- Adjunctive Medication Management and Contingency Management to enhance adherence to acamprosate for alcohol dependence: the ADAM trial RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2023Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of social media interventions for risky drinking among adolescents and emerging adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Trial
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- Targeting Addiction Treatment Engagement: A Canadian Randomized Effectiveness Trial of Remotely Administered Contingency Management for Treatment Attendance: Cibler l'engagement en matière de traitement des dépendances : essai d'efficacité à répartition aléatoire mené au Canada portant sur la gestion des contingences mise en œuvre à distance pour la participation au traitement.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Article
- Contingency management interventions for substance use and addictive behaviours: Review of the United Kingdom evidence base.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Review
- Commentary on Getty et al.: Complementarity of harm reduction and contingency management.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Operationalizing Contingency Management to Improve Adherence and Retention in Methadone Treatment: A Scoping Review.Substance use & misuse · 2026Article
- Implementing incentives in family medicine for opioid use disorder treatment: a qualitative inquiry on provider and patient preferences for a low magnitude reward program compatible with buprenorphine treatment.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Project MIMIC (Maximizing Implementation of Motivational Incentives in Clinics): preparation phase outcomes of a hybrid type 3 trial.Implementation science communications · 2025Article
- Leveraging Social Media and Crowdsourcing to Recruit and Retain Military Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder or Experience of Harmful Gambling for mHealth Interventions: Descriptive Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
- Protocol for a Type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial to evaluate multi-ethnic, multilevel strategies and community engagement to eliminate hypertension disparities in Los Angeles County.Implementation science : IS · 2025Article
- Interest in contingency management and reducing stimulant use among syringe service program participants.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundTreatment providers have applied contingency management (CM) treatment, an intervention that often rewards individuals for drug abstinence (i.e., ABS CM), to treatment engagement as well. However, we know little about the magnitude of treatment effects when providers target attendance behaviors (i.e., ATT CM).
methodsThis study conducted a systematic search to identify studies that included ATT CM, either in isolation or in combination with ABS CM. The study used meta-analysis to estimate the effect size of ATT CM and ABS CM + ATT CM on treatment attendance and drug abstinence. We identified a total of 10 studies including 12 CM treatments (6 ATT CM and 6 ABS CM + ATT CM) with 1841 participants.
resultsResults indicated a moderate effect (d = 0.47, 95% confidence interval (CI) [0.25, 0.69]) of ATT CM on attendance relative to non-reward active comparison conditions. Frequency of rewards was significantly associated with larger effect sizes. Results also indicated a small effect (d = 0.22, 95% CI [0.12, 0.33]) of ATT CM on abstinence outcomes relative to nonreward comparisons, p < 0.001. The study found no significant differences in attendance or abstinence between ATT CM and ABS CM + ATT CM (p's > 0.05).
conclusionOverall, the results supported ATT CM for increasing treatment engagement, with smaller effects on abstinence. Effects on abstinence were smaller than those observed in prior meta-analyses focused on ABS CM. No significant differences existed in attendance or abstinence outcomes between ATT CM and ABS + ATT CM. However, future studies are needed to experimentally compare ABS CM + ATT CM to ABS CM, and ATT CM to determine additive effects. Clinics implementing CM should consider the differential effects between ATT CM and ABS CM when selecting target behavior(s).
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