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Difficulty of follow-up and outcome of alcoholism treatment
Rudolf H. Moos,Fredric Bliss +1 more
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Patients who are difficult to follow up after alcoholism treatment have poorer treatment outcome than do patients who are followed up more easily.Abstract:
Patients who are difficult to follow up after alcoholism treatment have poorer treatment outcome than do patients who are followed up more easily.read more
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Counselling problem drinkers in medical wards: a controlled study.
TL;DR: It is concluded that systematic screening for alcohol consumption and related problems should become a routine part of medical assessment and that advice on drinking habits is effective if given before irreversible physical or psychosocial problems have developed.
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Minimizing participant attrition in panel studies through the use of effective retention and tracking strategies: Review and recommendations
Kurt M. Ribisl,Maureen A. Walton,Carol T. Mowbray,Douglas A. Luke,William S. Davidson,Bonnie J. BootsMiller +5 more
TL;DR: A brief overview of how attrition can threaten the validity of panel studies is provided and eight promising methods of minimizing attrition through the use of effective retention and tracking strategies are discussed.
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The effectiveness of inpatient and outpatient treatment for alcohol abuse: the need to focus on mediators and moderators of setting effects
TL;DR: When inpatient treatment was found to be more effective, outpatients did not receive a respite in the form of inpatient detoxification and the studies were slightly less likely to have social stability inclusion criteria and to use random assignment to treatment settings.
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A replicable model for achieving over 90% follow-up rates in longitudinal studies of substance abusers.
TL;DR: An examination of the effect of attrition on validity in these two samples demonstrated that even the traditionally acceptable 30% level of attrition can result in significant bias and that the nature of the bias is unpredictable.
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Alcoholism and Treatment
TL;DR: The Rand report achieved coast to coast media coverage and generated a lot of heat simply because it was found that, out there in the real world, some people labelled "alcoholic" actually achieve a controlled drinking goal.
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Environmental resources and the posttreatment functioning of alcoholic patients.
Evelyn J. Bromet,Rudolf H. Moos +1 more
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Evaluation of psychotherapy with alcoholics. A critical review.
Marjorie J. Hill,Howard T. Blane +1 more
TL;DR: A review of 49 studies published in the United States and Canada from 1952 through 1963 which reported evaluation of psychotherapy with alcoholics was undertaken as mentioned in this paper, which failed to live up to t...
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