Contingency management delivered by community therapists in outpatient settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few community-based clinicians have been trained to deliver contingency management (CM) treatments, and little data exist regarding the efficacy of CM when administered by clinicians.

Method

Fifteen clinicians from four intensive outpatient treatment programs received training in CM. Following a didactics seminar and a period in which clinicians delivered CM to pilot patients while receiving weekly supervision, clinicians treated 43 patients randomized to standard care or CM, without supervision. In both treatment conditions, urine and breath samples were collected up to twice weekly for 12 weeks, and CM patients earned the opportunity to win prizes ranging in value from $1 to $100 for submitting drug-free samples. Primary treatment outcomes were sessions attended

SUBMITTER: Petry NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3290694 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature