Verdejo‐Garcia, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-9339, Rezapour, T., Giddens, E. orcid.org/0000-0002-5405-0164 et al. (55 more authors) (2023) Cognitive training and remediation interventions for substance use disorders: a Delphi consensus study. Addiction, 118 (5). pp. 935-951. ISSN 0965-2140
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Substance use disorders (SUD) are associated with cognitive deficits that are not always addressed in current treatments, and this hampers recovery. Cognitive training and remediation interventions are well suited to fill the gap for managing cognitive deficits in SUD. We aimed to reach consensus on recommendations for developing and applying these interventions.
DESIGN: Delphi approach with two sequential phases: survey development and iterative surveying of experts.
SETTING: Online study.
PARTICIPANTS: During survey development, we engaged a group of 15 experts from a working group of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (Steering Committee). During the surveying process, we engaged a larger pool of experts (n=54) identified via recommendations from the Steering Committee and a systematic review.
MEASUREMENTS: Survey with 67 items covering four key areas of intervention development: targets, intervention approaches, active ingredients, and modes of delivery. FINDINGS: Across two iterative rounds (98% retention rate), the experts reached a consensus on 50 items including: (i) implicit biases, positive affect, arousal, executive functions, and social processing as key targets of interventions; (ii) cognitive bias modification, contingency management, emotion regulation training, and cognitive remediation as preferred approaches; (iii) practice, feedback, difficulty-titration, bias-modification, goal setting, strategy learning, and meta-awareness as active ingredients; and (iv) both addiction treatment workforce and specialized neuropsychologists facilitating delivery, together with novel digital-based delivery modalities.
CONCLUSIONS: Expert recommendations on cognitive training and remediation for substance use disorders highlight the relevance of targeting implicit biases, reward, emotion regulation, and higher-order cognitive skills via well-validated intervention approaches qualified with mechanistic techniques and flexible delivery options.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Addiction published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for the Study of Addiction. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Cognitive remediation; cognitive training; Delphi method; interventions; neuroscience; treatment |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2023 15:11 |
Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2024 09:56 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/add.16109 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195034 |