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Published on: June 18, 2018
Self-efficacy for cocaine abstinence: pretreatment correlates and relationship to outcomes
Sara L Dolan1, Rosemarie A Martin, Damaris J Rohsenow
1Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, RI 02908, USA. sara_dolan@baylor.edu <sara_dolan@baylor.edu>
Abstract:
Little research has been conducted on the relationship of self-efficacy at treatment entry to individual differences or to treatment outcome for patients with cocaine dependence. Those relationships were examined in 163 cocaine-dependent patients in a residential treatment program using two measures of self-efficacy administered in the first week of treatment: beliefs about success in quitting in general and confidence about not using in 11 cocaine-specific high-risk situations. The most robust correlates of self-efficacy were greater desire to stop using and lower urge to use in high-risk situations. Age, depressive symptoms, cognitive functioning, recent substance use, and past success with quitting also correlated with self-efficacy. Both measures of self-efficacy predicted quantity and frequency of cocaine use and abstinence at 3 but not 6 months after treatment after controlling pretreatment cocaine use. Results suggest that treatments should target self-efficacy in cocaine-dependent patients.
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