Assessing Treatment Integrity in Alcohol Behavioral Couple Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Alcohol Behavioral Couple Therapy (ABCT) is an efficacious treatment for alcohol use disorders. Coding treatment integrity can shed light on the active ingredients of ABCT, but there are no published studies of treatment integrity instruments for ABCT. The present study describes the development and initial reliability of the Treatment Integrity Rating System - Couples Version (C-TIRS) for ABCT.

Methods

The C-TIRS was used to rate 284 first- and mid-treatment ABCT sessions of 188 couples in four randomized clinical trials.

Results

Average inter-rater reliability for distinguishing ratings between C-TIRS items was fair-to-good for quantity items (intraclass correlation [ICC] = 0.64) and poor-to-fair for quality items (ICC = 0.41). Five C-TIRS subscales were

SUBMITTER: Hallgren KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4936783 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature