Development and initial evaluation of the Brief Addiction Monitor (BAM)

Cacciola, John S.; Alterman, Arthur I.; DePhilippis, Dominick; Drapkin, Michelle; Valadez, Charles; Natalie, C.; Oslin, David W.; McKay, James R.

doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2012.07.013

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“…Patients in the A-CHESS group were asked each week to complete a reduced version of the Brief Alcohol Monitoring (BAM) Index, 13 which included protective and risky items related to drinking (such as lifestyle balance, quality of sleep, negative affect, and recent substance use) and displayed a patient’s results graphically over time. With a patient’s permission, A-CHESS automatically sent notifications to counselors if a BAM score exceeded a preset threshold or the BAM was not completed.…”

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A Smartphone Application to Support Recovery From Alcoholism

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“…The Brief Addiction Monitor 24 was used to assess alcohol and drug use in the month prior to inpatient hospitalization. The Brief Addiction Monitor has demonstrated good test-retest reliability and strong predictive validity.…”

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Religious coping in patients with severe substance use disorders receiving acute inpatient detoxification

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Background and Objectives Religious coping, one of the most widely studied components of spirituality among psychiatric populations, has rarely been addressed in patients with severe substance use disorders (SUD). The aim of our study was to elucidate whether religious coping is related to symptom expression and mutual-help participation. Methods Self-reported religious coping was assessed in individuals sequentially admitted to a private psychiatric hospital for inpatient detoxification. Target symptoms of SUD included severity of substance use prior to admission and craving during detoxification. Three hundred thirty-one patients (68.6% male) participated in the survey; mean age was 38.0 years, and primary presenting diagnosis was most commonly alcohol use disorder (n=202; 61%), followed by opioid use disorder (n=119; 36%). Results Positive religious coping was associated with significantly greater mutual-help participation, fewer days of drug use prior to admission, and was modestly, yet significantly associated with lower drug craving. Negative religious coping was associated with lower confidence in the ability to remain abstinent post-discharge and higher drug craving. Conclusions Consistent with hypotheses, greater positive religious coping was associated with greater mutual-help participation, lower severity of pre-admission drug use, and lower substance craving during detoxification. Use of positive religious coping may modify the course of SUD recovery by promoting engagement in mutual-help activities.

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“…The follow-up survey included a study-specific measure of addiction treatment utilization asking participants, “Have you been back to treatment in the past month?” followed by the question, “are you going to outpatient treatment?” To assess mutual help attendance, we relied upon an item from the Brief Addiction Monitor (Cacciola et al, 2013; Nelson, Young, & Chapman, 2014) that assessed past-week Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous group attendance at each follow-up interview. The item was phrased, “how many days did you attend self-help meetings like Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous to support your recovery?” We coded mutual help attendance as any versus none in the past week at each interval, dichotomizing this item so the measurement scales of these two service utilization variables would be consistent for the mediation analysis.…”

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Treatment seeking as a mechanism of change in a randomized controlled trial of a mobile health intervention to support recovery from alcohol use disorders

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Background We estimated the efficacy of the Addiction-Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (A-CHESS) in increasing the use of services for addiction and examined the extent to which this use of services mediated the effects of A-CHESS on risky drinking days and abstinence from drinking. Methods We conducted secondary data analyses of the A-CHESS randomized controlled trial. Recruitment occurred in five residential treatment programs operated by two addiction treatment organizations. Participants were 349 adults with alcohol use disorders recruited two weeks before discharge from residential treatment. We provided intervention arm participants with a smartphone, the A-CHESS application, and an 8-month service plan. Control arm participants received treatment as usual. Telephone interviews at 4, 8, and 12-month follow-ups assessed past-month risky drinking days, past-month abstinence, and post-discharge service utilization (past-month outpatient addiction treatment and past-week mutual help including Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous). Using mixed effects latent variable models, we estimated the indirect effects of A-CHESS on drinking outcomes, as mediated by post-discharge service utilization. Results Approximately 50.5% of participants reported outpatient addiction treatment and 75.5% reported mutual help at any follow-up interview in the year following randomization. Assignment to the A-CHESS intervention was associated with an increased odds of outpatient addiction treatment across follow-ups, but not mutual help. This use of outpatient addiction treatment mediated the effect of A-CHESS on risky drinking days, but not abstinence. The effect of A-CHESS through outpatient addiction treatment appeared to reduce the expected number of risky drinking days across follow-ups by 11%. Conclusions The mobile health (mHealth) intervention promoted the use of outpatient addiction treatment, which appeared to contribute to its efficacy in reducing risky drinking. Future research should investigate how mHealth interventions could link patients to needed treatment services and promote the sustained use of these services.

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Development and initial evaluation of the Brief Addiction Monitor (BAM)

Cited by 167 publications

References 54 publications

A Smartphone Application to Support Recovery From Alcoholism

A Smartphone Application to Support Recovery From Alcoholism

Religious coping in patients with severe substance use disorders receiving acute inpatient detoxification

Treatment seeking as a mechanism of change in a randomized controlled trial of a mobile health intervention to support recovery from alcohol use disorders

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