Digital approaches to continuing care.
Curr Opin Psychiatry
; 35(4): 259-264, 2022 07 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2299857
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE OF REVIEW To provide an update of studies on the effectiveness of digital and telephonic approaches to providing remote continuing care for substance use disorders. RECENT FINDINGS:
Effective continuing care can be provided via smartphone apps, text messaging, interactive voice response, and structured telephone counseling. The remote continuing care interventions with the strongest evidence of efficacy are the Addiction Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System app and Telephone Monitoring and Counseling. Positive effects for these intervention on drinking outcomes in patients with alcohol use disorders were replicated in a recent randomized controlled study.SUMMARY:
Continuing care is widely believed to be an important component of treatment for substance use disorders, especially for sustaining positive outcomes. However, many individuals do not attend clinic-based continuing care, due to a variety of reasons, including competing work and family responsibilities, disabilities, transportation challenges, and recently the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote continuing care, provided via smartphone apps, text messaging, and various telephonic approaches, has been shown to be effective, and could be used to provide continuing care to patients who would otherwise not receive it. Further work is needed to determine how to effectively combine more traditional continuing care with newer digitized and telephonic approaches.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Substance-Related Disorders
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Alcoholism
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Text Messaging
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Qualitative research
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Curr Opin Psychiatry
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
YCO.0000000000000801
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