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01-12-2015 | Meeting abstract
The comparative costs of implementing in-person and computerized interventions to enhance treatment receipt among drug-involved probationers
Authors:
Alexander J Cowell, Gary A Zarkin, Brendan Wedehase, Scott T Walters, Faye S Taxman
Published in:
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
MAPIT is a three-arm randomized controlled trial assessing in-person Motivational Interviewing (MI) condition versus computerized (MAPIT) condition versus control. Our goal is to estimate the costs and cost-effectiveness for the study. We present preliminary findings on the startup costs and the implementation costs of the two intervention conditions, MI and MAPIT. To our knowledge, there is no published study of the cost-effectiveness of MI as a pretreatment intervention in a criminal justice setting. Similarly, there is no evidence to date on the cost-effectiveness of relevant web-based interventions in a criminal justice setting. An important contribution of this study is that it will address these significant gaps in the literature. …
