Shared Decision-Making Reduces Drug Use and Psychiatric Severity in Substance-Dependent Patients

Joosten, E.A.G.; de Jong, C.A.J.; de Weert-van Oene, G.H.; Sensky, Tom; van der Staak, C.P.F.

doi:10.1159/000219524

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Shared Decision-Making Reduces Drug Use and Psychiatric Severity in Substance-Dependent Patients

Published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics • Jan 1, 2009

Authors:

E.A.G. Joosten

C.A.J. de Jong

G.H. de Weert-van Oene

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In the last decades, shared decision-making (SDM) models have been developed to increase patient involvement in treatment decisions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a SDM intervention (SDMI) for patients dependent on psychoactive substances in addiction health care programs. Th...

Subject

Medicine

Population

Addiction

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