Therapeutic Outcome Expectations for Brain Disease vs. Social Stress Addiction Models

34 persons who use drugs engaged with Waythrough recovery services were interviewed about expected therapeutic outcomes. Participants rated hypothetical support groups discussing the brain disease model versus the social stress model of addiction. The dataset supports the article published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Volume 283, article 113145.

Use Cases

• Analyze differences in expected recovery likelihood based on the addiction model discussed.
• Compare expected therapeutic alliance ratings between brain disease and social stress model conditions.
• Study the relationship between addiction model discussion and expected self-blame reduction.
• Replicate analysis of non-significant effects on quitting effort and adaptive coping expectations.

Strengths

• Dataset is associated with a peer-reviewed article in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
• Includes data from 34 participants engaged with a specific recovery service (Waythrough).
• Study design used within-subjects counterbalancing for the two hypothetical conditions.
• Effect sizes (Cohen's d) for key outcome measures are provided in the description.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Sample size of 34 participants is small; the authors note numeric effects need replication with a larger sample.

Provenance

Source

Lee Hogarth, associated with the article in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Collection Method

Interviews with 34 persons who use drugs engaged with Waythrough drug and alcohol recovery services, utilizing methods from consumer psychology.

Freshness

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