Daily drinking and social network interactions in network support treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Social networks can be powerful determinants of drinking. Network Support (NS) treatment was designed to help persons with alcohol use disorder alter their social network to be more supportive of abstinence and less supportive of drinking. The present study was intended to determine how NS treatment altered behavior on a daily basis. It was expected that, relative to those treated in a packaged cognitive-behavioral treatment (PCBT), NS patients would report fewer daily contacts with drinking persons and increased contacts with nondrinking persons.

Method

Patients (N = 193) treated in our second NS trial provided daily recordings of drinks consumed, urge to drink, and self-efficacy for not drinking, as well as reports of associations with drinking and nondrin

SUBMITTER: Litt MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200907 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature