Differences by Gender in Predictors of Motivation Among Substance Abuse Treatment Participants

Taylor, Liana R.; Caudy, Michael S.; Blasko, Brandy L.; Taxman, Faye S.

doi:10.1080/10826084.2016.1245332

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“…Finally, due to the qualitative thematic method of the study, motives for seeking treatment were extracted through interviewing patients and analyzing their quotations. However, as cited in a study [26], a thorough understanding of motives leading patients to seek treatment needs further research based on observational studies of patients' behaviors.…”

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“…In a study among drug users in Tehran, it was shown that opioids and stimulants were the predominantly used drugs [4]. More importantly, opioid use is more prevalent among men in Iran [22,25,26] Although substance use has increased significantly among women in recent years, there is evidence that men still show a much higher rate (8 to 10 times higher than the rate among women) [25,27].…”

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“…A growing body of literature emphasizes the motives of treatment-seeking are of high importance in the treatment process [26,[28][29][30][31]. This matter has led to discussions about motive-based interventions [21,30,32].…”

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Redemption from plight: a qualitative study on reasons behind treatment decisions among Iranian male opioid users

Rarani

Morasae

Pashaei

et al. 2020

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

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Background: Opioid use remains a significant cause of harm to individual health. Perceived motives are of the main factors that help lead a patient into seeking treatment voluntarily to obviate that harm. The current study expands on the literature by exploring when and how male users of opioids become motivated to voluntarily seek treatment services. Methods: In a qualitative study in Isfahan city from January 2018 to March 2019, 55 male participants who had already started a variety of treatment services to withdraw their dependence on opioids were recruited. Selection of participants was based on a maximum variation purposive sampling strategy. Each participant took part in a unstructured interview to identify his motives for seeking opioid use treatment. Interviews were undertaken in eight different treatment centers. An inductive thematic analysis method was used to analyze the interviews. Results: The findings highlight that Iranian male opioid users have different motivations to seek treatment. To be precise, the findings illuminate three global themes and six themes as treatment-seeking motives among the participants including; motives related to family (reason for family and reason of family), quality of life (adverse effects on personal lifestyle and health) and economic motives (financial failure and job failure). Conclusions: The findings can improve our understanding of the motives for seeking treatment from the perspective of opioid patients who entered themselves into treatment. Particularly, these findings could help policymakers and treatment providers to better understand opioid-use patient's perceived concerns and fears as motives for treatment-seeking.

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Redemption from plight: a qualitative study on reasons behind treatment decisions among Iranian male opioid users

Rarani

Morasae

Pashaei

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“…What does it mean to say that Hispanic males have more motivation to stop substance abuse than non-Hispanic males, since they score higher on desire for help scales [7]? How can we interpret the data that brain response to sexual stimuli compared to neutral stimuli is the activation of right superior parietal lobule and left inferior parietal lobule [8]?…”

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Critique of the concept of motivation and its implications for healthcare practices

Sampaio

Ayres

2019

Philos Ethics Humanit Med

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BackgroundMotivation is a crucial and widespread theme within medicine. From clinical to surgical scenarios, acquiescence in taking a pill or coming to a consultation is imperative for medical treatment to thrive. The “decade of the brain” gave practitioners substantial neuroscientific data on human behavior, helped to explain why people do what they do and created the concept of “motivated brain”. Findings from empirical psychology stratified motivation into stages of change, which became more complex over the decades. This research seeks to improve the understanding of how people make decisions about their health, and how to better understand strategies and techniques to help them resolve ambivalence in an effective goal-oriented way.MethodsWe establish a dialogue with Ricoeur’s phenomenology of the will in order to understand the meaning of these scientific findings. Starting from Husserlian phenomenology, Paul Ricoeur developed his thoughts away from transcendental idealism, through emancipating the intentional structures of the will from the realm of perception.ResultsThrough introducing the concepts of the voluntary and the involuntary, Ricoeur deviated from Cartesian dualism, which renders the body as an object body, a target of natural vicissitudes. The new dualism of the voluntary and the involuntary is dealt with by reference to what Ricoeur called the central mystery of incarnate existence, which considers man “double in humanity, simple in vitality”. This duality makes it possible to consider the brain to be the natural organ of behavior in the human body, and to use empirical psychology as a path to escape from shallow subjectivations of concepts.ConclusionsPaul Ricoeur’s simplicity (or unity) of existence provides an invitation for medicine to rethink some of its philosophical assumptions, such that patients can be considered to be autonomous subjects with authorial life projects. Ricoeurian anthropology has a deep ethical impact on how medicine should use technology, which arises from empirical psychology findings. The usage of this new knowledge also needs to be thoroughly inspected, since it shifts the social role of medical science.

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“…Research found higher motivation among women,[ 17 18 ]and comparable motivation with men. [ 19 ] While poor motivation might be one reason behind this, other factors should also be examined for poor retention among them. As mentioned earlier several gender-specific barriers exist which play a role for poor retention in SUD treatment among women.…”

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Demographic and clinical profile of women receiving inpatient treatment at a deaddiction unit of a psychiatric hospital in India

Khanra

Singh

Munda

et al. 2022

Industrial Psychiatry Journal

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Differences by Gender in Predictors of Motivation Among Substance Abuse Treatment Participants

Abstract: Findings suggest that motivation for treatment may be a gender-neutral construct, and that there is a need to better understand sociodemographic predictors of motivation.

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Redemption from plight: a qualitative study on reasons behind treatment decisions among Iranian male opioid users

Redemption from plight: a qualitative study on reasons behind treatment decisions among Iranian male opioid users

Critique of the concept of motivation and its implications for healthcare practices

Demographic and clinical profile of women receiving inpatient treatment at a deaddiction unit of a psychiatric hospital in India

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