Acceptability and feasibility of using contingency management for cannabis reduction in specialist mental health services for psychosis: A qualitative study of staff views.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

There is increasing evidence linking cannabis use to onset, continuation, and relapse of psychosis. Contingency Management (CM) is discussed as a candidate intervention to reduce cannabis use. Our study aimed to explore staff views on the feasibility and acceptability of using CM for cannabis reduction in early intervention services for psychosis (EIS), in order to inform wider learning about implementation of such approaches in mental health services.

Setting

EIS teams in England.

Method

Semi-structured interviews and focus groups analysed thematically.

Participants

Forty managers and staff members working in mental health services where a CM intervention was delivered as part of a trial, four staff who delivered CM in these settings, and three key informa

SUBMITTER: Middleton Curran L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9907825 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature