title: Association between drinking goal and alcohol use one year after residential treatment: a multicenter study.
abstract: This study examined whether patients' drinking goals at admission to and discharge from 12 residential alcohol use disorder treatment programs were associated with alcohol-related outcomes at 1-year follow-up. Detoxified patients (N = 289) completed assessments at admission, after treatment, and at 1-year follow-up. Drinking goals of abstinence, conditional abstinence (in principle abstinence but potential occurrence of lapses or drinking, when urges are strong), and controlled drinking changed during treatment and predicted the 1-year follow-up outcomes (abstinence, number of standard drinks, and number of days to the first alcohol use). Goals at discharge had a better predictive value. The goal of abstinence at discharge had better outcomes than conditional abstinence; the poorest had controlled drinking.
authors.affiliation: a University Hospital of Psychiatry , University of Bern , Bern , Switzerland.
authors.forename: Agnes
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wapp
authors.forename: Werner
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Strik
authors.forename: Franz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moggi
mesh_terms: D064829:Alcohol Abstinence / Q000523:psychology; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010343:Patient Admission; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012114:Residential Treatment; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: 1-year follow-up; Alcohol use disorder; alcohol treatment outcomes; drinking goal; predictors; residential treatment