TY - GEN
T1 - Computerized contingency management for motivating behavior change
T2 - 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS'07
AU - Vahabzadeh, Massoud
AU - Lin, Jia Ling
AU - Epstein, David H.
AU - Mezghanni, Mustapha
AU - Schmittner, John
AU - Preston, Kenzie L.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Contingency management has been successfully used to reinforce abstinence in drug-dependent patients. The major challenge associated with this technique, however, is its likely prohibitive cost especially when the reinforcement follows an escalating amount schedule. At our clinic, we have implemented a less costly approach involving prize draws as the reinforcer. Workflow challenges of such an implementation are extensive considering varying conditions concurrently used in various protocols for meeting inclusion criteria, stratifying into various groups, tracking categories of prizes, determining eligibility for bonus draws based on laboratory results, etc. To address these challenges we implemented the Automated Contingency Management (ACM) decision support system for dynamic reward reinforcement in the study of treatment of cocaine and opiates. A discussion of the results of our research as well as possible insight into some of our findings provided by ACM is presented in this paper.
AB - Contingency management has been successfully used to reinforce abstinence in drug-dependent patients. The major challenge associated with this technique, however, is its likely prohibitive cost especially when the reinforcement follows an escalating amount schedule. At our clinic, we have implemented a less costly approach involving prize draws as the reinforcer. Workflow challenges of such an implementation are extensive considering varying conditions concurrently used in various protocols for meeting inclusion criteria, stratifying into various groups, tracking categories of prizes, determining eligibility for bonus draws based on laboratory results, etc. To address these challenges we implemented the Automated Contingency Management (ACM) decision support system for dynamic reward reinforcement in the study of treatment of cocaine and opiates. A discussion of the results of our research as well as possible insight into some of our findings provided by ACM is presented in this paper.
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U2 - 10.1109/CBMS.2007.35
DO - 10.1109/CBMS.2007.35
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34748894181
SN - 0769529054
SN - 9780769529059
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
SP - 85
EP - 90
BT - Proceedings - Twentieth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS'07
Y2 - 20 June 2007 through 22 June 2007
ER -