Randomized controlled trial of contingency management for stimulant use in community mental health patients with serious mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The primary objective of this study was to determine whether contingency management was associated with increased abstinence from stimulant drug use in stimulant-dependent patients with serious mental illness treated in a community mental health center. Secondary objectives were to determine whether contingency management was associated with reductions in use of other substances, psychiatric symptoms, HIV risk behavior, and inpatient service utilization.

Method

A randomized controlled design was used to compare outcomes of 176 outpatients with serious mental illness and stimulant dependence. Participants were randomly assigned to receive 3 months of contingency management for stimulant abstinence plus treatment as usual or treatment as usual with reinforcement for

SUBMITTER: McDonell MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4242089 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature