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Participation in Teleconference Support Groups: Application to Drug-Using Pregnant Patients
Farrokh Alemi,Mary S. Jackson,Ted Parren,Leslie Williams,Balinda Cavor,Shirley Llorens,Maghboeba Mosavel +6 more
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The experience using telephone conference calls to conduct support groups for chemically-dependent women suggests that teleconferencing may not be the most effective method for providing support services to chemically- dependent women.Abstract:
This paper describes our experience using telephone conference calls to conduct support groups for chemically-dependent women. Forty-seven women agreed to participate in regular, weekly support groups that were conducted by two chemical dependency counselors. Counselors attempted to conduct 59 support groups via a telephone conferencing system. Our data indicated that attendance at these sessions was poor. Seventeen sessions had no participants. No group sessions were attended by 4 or more women, and only 3 sessions (7.1%) included 3 participants. Very few clients made regular use of the support groups. Only 4 clients (8.5%) participated in more than 3 group sessions. Our findings suggest that teleconferencing may not be the most effective method for providing support services to chemically-dependent women.read more
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A Systematic Review of Telephone Support for Women During Pregnancy and the Early Postpartum Period
Cindy-Lee Dennis,Dawn Kingston +1 more
TL;DR: Proactive telephone support may assist in preventing smoking relapse, play a role in preventing low birthweight, increase breastfeeding duration and exclusivity, and decrease postpartum depressive symptomatology.
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An interactive Web-based intervention for persons with TBI and their families: use and evaluation by female significant others.
TL;DR: Female significant others found the Web site to be valuable and easy to use, and used it throughout the 6-month period, and the on-line support group was the most used and valued module.
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A randomized trial of a telecommunications network for pregnant women who use cocaine.
Farrokh Alemi,Richard C. Stephens,Rajshekhar G. Javalghi,Hayne Dyches,John Butts,Ali Ghadiri +5 more
TL;DR: Almost all patients used the computer services to some extent, but there seems to be a threshold after which the use of the services had a more positive impact, and participation in formal drug treatment was not effective in reducing the drug or the alcohol use.
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Telemedicine interventions for substance-use disorder: a literature review:
TL;DR: The majority of studies reported evidence of clinical effectiveness, which justifies continued research in the field, and the methodology used to evaluate telemedicine interventions was described.
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