Motivational enhancement treatment in outpatient addiction centers: A multisite randomized trial

Autor: Elizabeth Alonso, José Fernández-Mondragón, Ana de la Fuente-Martín, Carlos Lima-Rodríguez, Viviana E. Horigian, Rodrigo Marín-Navarrete, Rosa E. Verdeja, María Elena Medina-Mora, Daniel J. Feaster, Carlos Berlanga, Ricardo Sánchez-Huesca
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology : IJCHP
ISSN: 2174-0852
Popis: Motivational Enhancement Treatment in Spanish (METS) is a brief intervention aimed at resolving patient ambivalence towards behavior change that has demonstrated efficacy in substance use disorder treatment to reduce use and increase treatment engagement in different populations. In order to have evidence for its implementation in Mexico, a multi-site, randomized, two-arm, controlled clinical trial was conducted at three outpatient addiction treatment centers in the country to compare the effect of METS with Counseling as Usual (CAU).One hundred and twenty patients were randomized to receive three sessions of METS (Results associated both conditions with significant changes in substance use over, whereas there were no differences between conditions in substance use or in service utilization.Findings do not support the hypothesis that METS is more effective than CAU, but suggest that brief interventions at treatment initiation may improve patient outcomes.Antecedentes/Objetivos: La Intervención de Incremento Motivacional (METS) es una intervención breve para resolver la ambivalencia del paciente con respecto a su comportamiento y ha demostrado eficacia en distintas poblaciones para reducir el consumo de sustancias e incrementar la asistencia al tratamiento en adicciones. Con el objetivo de generar evidencia para su implementación en México, se desarrolló un ensayo clínico controlado, multi-sede, aleatorizado, de dos brazos en tres centros de tratamiento ambulatorio para adicciones, para comparar el efecto de METS con el del tratamiento usual (CAU). Método: Ciento veinte pacientes fueron aleatorizados a tres sesiones de METS (
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