The Lindow Project: How to undertake a large-scale randomized control study on relapse prevention in clinical practice
J Lindenmeyer, M Rinck, E Becker · Suchttherapie · 2009 · Heft 09
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Zusammenfassung
Background: Even after extensive inpatient treatment using evidence-based methods, many alcohol-dependent patients will relapse within a few months. Until now, there are no instruments to predict relapse in a satisfying way. Various studies have shown that attentional bias towards alcohol related cues is present in alcohol abusers. There also are indications that decreasing of attentional bias during treatment is positively linked to outcome. But so far, no psychological methods to directly influence these implicit processes have been developed and tested in clinical practice. Instead, relapse prevention is stil…