Clinical implications of Project MATCH.

Clinical and scientific implications of Project MATCH.

The clinical and scientific implications of the alcohol dependent patient-treatment matching study, Project MATCH, are discussed.

The following are the results of the study:

• a small number of matching effects;
• a suggestion that clinical efficacy may be improved in some cases if clinicians take into account certain client characteristics: trait anger, alcohol dependence, social support for drinking, and psychiatric severity;
• a suggestion that affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) may be increased with Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF);
• a suggestion that increased involvement in AA may be associated with long-term sobriety;
• a suggestion that the Twelve Step approaches and AA may promote sobriety because they provide an alternative social network that does not support alcohol consumption.

Research report; Cooney, N.L.; Babor, T.F.; DiClemente, C.C.; Del Boca, F.K. Clinical and scientific implications of Project MATCH. In: T.F. Babor and F.K. Del Boca, Treatment Matching in Alcoholism, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 275 p. (pp. 222-237) (168018)

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