Marc Rosen

..This study examined factors potentially associated with veterans' perception of their examination's quality...

..The significant associations of cocaine, other stimulants, heroin, and alcohol use with adherence suggest that these are important substances to target with adherence-focused interventions...

..How addicts manage their funds can be understood from the studies of impulsive spending, contingency management, self-reported expenditures, behavioral economics, and anthropology...

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..A brief CM-based intervention was associated with significantly higher adherence and lower viral loads. Future studies should evaluate methods to extend effects for longer term benefits...

..In the advisor-teller money manager (ATM) intervention, a money manager stores patients' checkbooks and automated bank cards, trains patients to manage their own funds, and links spending to activities related to their treatment goals...

..This randomized clinical trial was conducted to determine the effect of a money management-based therapy, advisor-teller money manager (ATM), on substance abuse or dependence...

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..In multivariate analyses, whether or not the payee had had training about mental illness accounted for 33% of the variance in satisfaction with the payee...

..Data from nine patients who reviewed pill cap-generated data with their primary care providers suggested that both patients and providers found the discussion moderately helpful and not at all uncomfortable...

..However, in a sample of hospitalized patients, mismanagement of funds was not associated with longer length of stay or increased service use following discharge...

..Thus, in a subset of patients, the actions involved in procuring drugs and the acute effects of using them contribute to non-adherence on those specific drug use days, associated with substance abuse. (Am J Addict 2003;12:455-458)..

..None of the neuropsychological variables were associated with glycosylated hemoglobin. These results suggest that cognitive abilities should be considered when counseling patients concerning their adherence...

..A significant minority endorsed some feeling of coercion, and coercion was associated with a weaker therapeutic alliance...

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..This study sought to determine the possible need for a payee among Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) inpatients with substance use disorders who receive public support payments...

..Thus, the therapeutic vaccine was well tolerated with dose related increases in antibody levels, and a high proportion of patients recruited into the study were retained...

..This study assesses the effectiveness of a money management intervention, Advisor-Teller Money Manager (ATM), in reducing delay discounting over time and the relationship of these effects to changes in cocaine use...

..Further, the clinical implications of low-abundance drug-resistant variants at time of virologic failure are unknown...

..Results suggest that the interview is sensitive in detecting money mismanagement and raises questions concerning the validity of clinicians' judgments...

..Overall satisfaction with payees and trust in them was high...

..To determine whether receipt of social supplemental security income (SSI) or Social Security disability income (SSDI) disability payments is associated with increased drug and alcohol use...

..This clinical trial will determine whether a money management-based therapy is more effective in reducing cocaine use than standard drug counseling. ..

..Analyses of the role of substance abuse in money mismanagement will be conducted. ..

..This clinical trial will determine whether a money management-based therapy is more effective in reducing cocaine use than standard drug counseling. ..

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..These studies will address fundamental questions about dispensing of disability payments and assignment of payees to dually diagnosed beneficiaries, questions that cannot be ethically addressed by prospective trials. ..

..Important process measures will be whether IMF (cues to remember doses, changes in substance use). A secondary aim will be to evaluate the temporal concordance between use of substances and medication non-compliance. ..

..The primary outcome measure will be MEMS-measured adherence to correct dose-time. Secondary outcome measures will include cost-effectiveness and viral load. ..

..The primary goal of this stage I project is to develop the materials, measures, procedures, and evidence of efficacy necessary to support Stage II testing of the intervention. ..