Voucher incentives increase treatment participation in telephone-based continuing care for cocaine dependence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telephone-based monitoring is a promising approach to continuing care of substance use disorders, but patients often do not engage or participate enough to benefit. Voucher incentives can increase retention in outpatient treatment and continuing care, but may be less effective when reinforcement is delayed, as in telephone-based care. We compared treatment utilization rates among cocaine-dependent patients enrolled in telephone continuing care with and without voucher incentives to determine whether incentives increase participation in telephone-based care.

Method

Participants were 195 cocaine-dependent patients who completed two weeks of community-based intensive outpatient treatment for substance use disorders and were randomly assigned to receive telephone cont

SUBMITTER: Van Horn DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3046319 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature