Who achieves low risk drinking during alcohol treatment? An analysis of patients in three alcohol clinical trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

There is evidence that low-risk drinking is possible during the course of alcohol treatment and can be maintained following treatment. Our aim was to identify characteristics associated with low-risk drinking during treatment in a large sample of individuals as they received treatment for alcohol dependence.

Design

Integrated analysis of data from the Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Intervention (COMBINE) study, Project MATCH (Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity) and the United Kingdom Alcohol Treatment Trial (UKATT) using repeated-measures latent class analysis to identify patterns of drinking and predictors of low-risk drinking patterns during treatment.

Setting

United States and United Kingdom.

Participants

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SUBMITTER: Witkiewitz K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5673549 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature