Remote Alcohol Monitoring to Facilitate Incentive-Based Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The delivery of monetary incentives contingent on verified abstinence is an effective treatment for alcohol use disorder. However, technological barriers to accurate, frequent biochemical verification of alcohol abstinence have limited the dissemination of this technique.

Methods

In the present randomized parallel trial, we employed a breathalyzer that allows remote, user-verified collection of a breath alcohol sample, text messaging, and reloadable debit cards for remote delivery of incentives to evaluate a contingency management treatment for alcohol use disorder that can be delivered with no in-person contact. Treatment-seeking participants with alcohol use disorder (n = 40) were recruited from the community and randomized to either a contingent or a nonconting

SUBMITTER: Koffarnus MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286218 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature