Effectiveness and efficiency of methodology for recruiting participants in natural recovery from alcohol and drug addiction
Effectiveness and efficiency of methodology for recruiting participants in natural recovery from alcohol and drug addiction
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DOI：
10.1080/16066350802401295
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Garcia-Rodriguez, Olaya
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作者：
Carballo, Jose L.;Fernandez-Hermida, Jose R.;Garcia-Rodriguez, Olaya
这项描述性研究的目的是，从经济和时间的角度分析不同战略的有效性和效率，以招募那些在没有帮助的情况下从酒精和其他药物问题中康复的参与者。在两个不同的国家实施了不同的招聘策略（新闻广告、通过媒体宣传、海报、滚雪球技术和向保健专业人员求助），为期两年，并就招聘自我改变者的有效性和效率进行了比较。这项研究是在西班牙和南佛罗里达（美国）的不同地区进行的。通过这些策略，总共招募了54名说西班牙语的参与者，他们在没有治疗帮助的情况下改变了他们的消费习惯，其中29人在西班牙，25人在佛罗里达州。评估了实施每项战略的经济成本和时间。为了获得每个策略的经济和时间效率，将这些成本除以招募的参与者的数量。通过招募参与者的数量来分析有效性。从时间上看，广告是最有效的策略，而从经济上看，海报是最有效的策略。招募自我改变者是旨在分析药物使用中的自我改变的研究面临的最大障碍之一。经济和时间成本都很高。需要进一步的工作来提高招募策略的有效性和效率，以优化用于成瘾行为自然恢复研究的资源。
The goal of this descriptive study is to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency in economic and temporal terms of different strategies for the recruitment of participants who have recovered without help from problems with alcohol and other drugs. Diverse recruitment strategies were implemented (press advertisements, publicizing through the media, posters, snowball technique and request for help from healthcare professionals) over a two-year period in two different countries, and the results compared in terms of effectiveness and efficiency in the recruitment of self-changers. This study was carried out in various regions of Spain and in South Florida (USA). With these strategies a total of 54 Spanish-speaking participants were recruited who had changed their consumption habits without therapeutic help, 29 of them in Spain and 25 in Florida. Economic cost and time spent for the implementation of each strategy were assessed. These costs were divided by the number of participants recruited in order to obtain the economic and temporal efficiency of each strategy. Effectiveness was analysed by means of the number of participants recruited. Advertisements emerged as the most effective and efficient strategy in terms of time, while posters was the most efficient strategy in economic terms. The recruitment of self-changers is one of the greatest obstacles facing studies that set out to analyse self-change in drug use. The economic and temporal costs are high. Further work is needed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of recruitment strategies with the aim of optimizing the resources employed in studies on natural recovery in addictive behaviours.