Objective: Few studies have examined which measures of motivation for change predict abstinence and early remission outcomes (AER) for emerging adults with substance-use disorders, and recent research

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Characteristics of Abstinent Substance Abusers Who First Sought Treatment in Adolescence (1994) · doi

  A survey was given to 141 male and female substance abusers who had eleven or more months of continuous abstinence and first sought treatment in adolescence in an attempt to add to the limited knowledge of known variables associated with successful adolescent response to clinical and community-based treatment.

  Keywords: treatment survey given male female substance abusers eleven months continuous abstinence first sought adolescence attempt
• Treatment Staff's Continuity of Care Practices, Patients' Engagement in Continuing Care, and Abstinence Following Outpatient Substance-Use Disorder Treatment (2008) · doi

  OBJECTIVE: Although speculation suggests that continuity of care predicts abstinence following substance-use disorder (SUD) treatment, models examining staff's continuity of care practices and engagement in continuing care and whether they mediate or moderate the association between patient and treatment factors and abstinence are lacking.

  Keywords: care continuity abstinence treatment objective speculation suggests predicts following substance disorder models examining staff practices
• Predictive Validity of Single-Item Motivational Measures for Emerging Adults in Substance-Use Disorder Treatment (2017) · doi

  Objective: Few studies have examined which measures of motivation for change predict abstinence and early remission outcomes (AER) for emerging adults with substance-use disorders, and recent research suggests that single-item measures may perform as well as longer readiness-to-change scales.

  Keywords: measures change objective examined motivation predict abstinence early remission outcomes emerging adults substance disorders recent