Marianne Stallvik

Norwegian University of Technology and Science · Rkbu

The underlying mechanisms of drop out in residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment were investigated from the users’ perspective to identify what impacts their drop-out. A survey-based design was used in this study of patients who had decided to drop-out from residential SUD treatment with a therapeutic community approach. The survey inclu...

Background: The purpose of this study was to assess what is associated with health service satisfaction among adults with a substance use disorder receiving services provided within different municipalities in Norway. An additional aim was to examine demographic and municipality characteristics, mental health, and types of substance use associated...

Factors affecting dropout from residential treatment for patients with substance use disorders. A case study with emphasis on both patient and clinician perspectives Retention in substance abuse treatment is one of the most consistent predictors of successful treatment. Despite dropout rates from 17-57% for inpatient treatment, little is known of p...

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XqeX3y4hEPQkTdAEBm9A/full Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) has received more attention recently; however, there is still limited knowledge of the relationship between HRQoL in comorbid samples, and service needs within this population. The rate for additional psychological issues and the drop-out rate is kno...

BioPsychoSocial understanding of substance use disorder

Great variation in assessment across Norwegian addiction programs necessitated a solution for harmonization. The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria Software is a computer-assisted structured interview and clinical decision support program. Using validated tools (e.g. Addiction Severity Index; ASI), it measures biopsychosocial co...

Objective: The complexity of substance use and psychiatric disorders demands thorough assessment of patients for integrated services. We tested the convergent validity of the software version of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) second edition-revised criteria for patient placement by examining the software's ability to discriminat...

The ASAM Criteria Software from the American Society of Addiction Medicine is a new computer-assisted structured interview and clinical decision support program that implements validated tools such as the Addiction Severity Index (ASI), and measures biopsychosocial conditions to match patients to an optimal level of care (LOC). The study methods in...

Objectives: This study aimed to measure motivation for substance use treatment by using the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA). The composite URICA scores for Readiness To Change (RTC) and Committed Action (CA) were used to investigate their predictive validity regarding whether patients were still in substance use treatment 3 mon...

Background: Methadone and buprenorphine are widely used in the treatment of opioid addiction. Some study results suggest that methadone can be associated with QT interval prolongation and torsades de pointes ventricular arrhythmias, whereas no such risk has been observed for buprenorphine. The aim of this study is to determine the risk of correcte...