An investigation of descriptive and experimental aspects of intrusive thoughts in a sample of substance-dependent inpatients

Autor:	Catherine Donaldson, Hamid Ghodse, Christos Kouimtsidis, Martina Reynolds, Anton Valmana
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Relaxation (psychology) Addiction media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Sample (material) Medicine (miscellaneous) Thought suppression Intrusion medicine Substance misuse Smoking cessation Psychology Psychiatry Clinical psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Addiction Research & Theory. 13:347-357
ISSN:	1476-7392 1606-6359
DOI:	10.1080/16066350500064239
Popis:	Aims: Thought processes have been hypothesised to play a role in addiction and relapse (Salkovskis and Reynolds (1994)). Thought suppression and smoking cessation showed that suppression was associated with an increase in smoking-related intrusive thoughts, whilst a distracting task (relaxation) reduced intrusion frequency. This is a report of a similar study with a substance-dependent sample undergoing detoxification.Design: Subjects were randomly allocated to one of three groups (mention control, relaxation and suppress) and respectively were asked to monitor, suppress and do relaxation exercises, and suppress substance-related intrusive thoughts in period 1. In period 2 they were told that they could think about anything. Subjects recorded all substance-related intrusions in both periods.Participants and Setting: Inpatient opiate or multisubstance-dependent sample undergoing detoxification.Findings: Deliberate suppression of substance-related intrusive thoughts did not result in an increase in the freq...
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