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0000-0001-8826-3224
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King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-11-2016
Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)
Date: 08-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGALCDEP.2021.109158
Abstract: We examined prevalence and factors associated with receiving perceived helpful alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment, and persistence in help-seeking after earlier unhelpful treatment. Data came from 27 community epidemiologic surveys of adults in 24 countries using the World Health Organization World Mental Health surveys (n = 93,843). Participants with a lifetime history of treated AUD were asked if they ever received helpful AUD treatment, and how many professionals they had talked to up to and including the first time they received helpful treatment (or how many ever, if they had not received helpful treatment). 11.8% of respondents with lifetime AUD reported ever obtaining treatment (n = 9378) of these, 44% reported that treatment was helpful. The probability of obtaining helpful treatment from the first professional seen was 21.8% the conditional probability of subsequent professionals being helpful after earlier unhelpful treatment tended to decrease as more professionals were seen. The cumulative probability of receiving helpful treatment at least once increased from 21.8% after the first professional to 79.7% after the seventh professional seen, following earlier unhelpful treatment. However, the cumulative probability of persisting with up to seven professionals in the face of prior treatments being unhelpful was only 13.2%. Fewer than half of people with AUDs who sought treatment found treatment helpful the most important factor was persistence in seeking further treatment if a previous professional had not helped. Future research should examine how to increase the likelihood that AUD treatment is found to be helpful on any given contact.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-09-2017
DOI: 10.1002/WPS.20457
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-03-2021
DOI: 10.1111/BDI.13066
Abstract: To examine patterns and predictors of perceived treatment helpfulness for mania/hypomania and associated depression in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. Face‐to‐face interviews with community s les across 15 countries found n = 2,178 who received lifetime mania/hypomania treatment and n = 624 with lifetime mania/hypomania who received lifetime major depression treatment. These respondents were asked whether treatment was ever helpful and, if so, the number of professionals seen before receiving helpful treatment. Patterns and predictors of treatment helpfulness were examined separately for mania/hypomania and depression. 63.1% (mania/hypomania) and 65.1% (depression) of patients reported ever receiving helpful treatment. However, only 24.5–22.5% were helped by the first professional seen, which means that the others needed to persist in help seeking after initial unhelpful treatments in order to find helpful treatment. Projections find only 22.9% (mania/hypomania) and 43.3% (depression) would persist through a series of unhelpful treatments but that the proportion helped would increase substantially if persistence increased. Few patient‐level significant predictors of helpful treatment emerged and none consistently either across the two components (i.e., provider‐level helpfulness and persistence after earlier unhelpful treatment) or for both mania/hypomania and depression. Although prevalence of treatment was higher in high‐income than low/middle‐income countries, proportional helpfulness among treated cases was nearly identical in the two groups of countries. Probability of patients with mania/hypomania and associated depression obtaining helpful treatment might increase substantially if persistence in help‐seeking increased after initially unhelpful treatments, although this could require seeing numerous additional treatment providers. In addition to investigating reasons for initial treatments not being helpful, messages reinforcing the importance of persistence should be emphasized to patients.
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 15-07-2020
DOI: 10.1002/DA.23076
Location: Saudi Arabia
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