Role of Parenting Styles in Adolescent Substance Use Cessation: Results from a Brazilian Prospective Study.

Background: This study aims to identify the association between parenting styles and behavioral changes among adolescents regarding the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, cocaine/crack.

Methods: A group of ninety-nine adolescents (39 girls and 60 boys), aged 14 to 19 years (17.05 ± 1.

CBI-20: Psychometric Properties for the Coping Behaviors Inventory for Alcohol Abuse in Brazil.

For any professional, it is of crucial importance to know not only how coping styles and strategies are present in an individual, but to know about its role to the treatment of alcohol abuse. Moreover, new approaches have emerged in this area in terms of relapse prevention and the counseling by phone can be an alternative. The aim of this study is to examine the factor structure of the Coping Behaviors Inventory (CBI) and to test its invariance across groups face-to-face and phone counseling in Brazil.

Dropout Prevalence and Associated Factors in Randomized Clinical Trials of Adolescents Treated for Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Purpose: Depression currently affects 350 million people, and its prevalence among adolescents is 4% to 8%. Adolescents who abandon antidepressant treatment or drop out of clinical trials are less likely to recover or experience a remission of symptoms because they are not being followed up by a medical team. The objective of this study was to analyze the dropout rates of randomized clinical trials of depressed adolescents receiving treatment with antidepressant drugs and the factors associated with nonadherence by summarizing this information in a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Family functioning and health issues associated with codependency in families of drug users.

Unlabelled: Substance abuse affects both the user and the family system as a whole, yet substance abuse treatment is centered on the user, leaving the family in the background.

Objective: To identify the symptoms of codependency and health issues in the codependent family members of drug users who called a toll-free telephone counseling service. In total, 505 family members participated in this cross-sectional study.

Non-adherence to telemedicine interventions for drug users: systematic review.

OBJECTIVE To estimate rates of non-adherence to telemedicine strategies aimed at treating drug addiction. METHODS A systematic review was conducted of randomized controlled trials investigating different telemedicine treatment methods for drug addiction. The following databases were consulted between May 18, 2012 and June 21, 2012: PubMed, PsycINFO, SciELO, Wiley (The Cochrane Library), Embase, Clinical trials and Google Scholar.

Assessment of changes in nicotine dependence, motivation, and symptoms of anxiety and depression among smokers in the initial process of smoking reduction or cessation: a short-term follow-up study.

Introduction: The first days of a quit attempt represent an important challenge to long-term abstinence, especially because of the changes that take place over this period.

Objective: To examine whether smokers who have recently changed their smoking behavior show changes in the intensity of nicotine dependence, motivational stage, or symptoms of anxiety and depression relative to smokers without recent changes in smoking behavior.

Methods: Smokers attending a support group for smoking cessation in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, were invited to participate.

[Telephone counseling for young users of crack cocaine].

This study seeks to evaluate the use of Brief Motivational Intervention in a telephone counseling service offered to young people in the process of cessation of crack cocaine use. A descriptive study was conducted based on a survey of the records of callsfrom users during the period January 2006 to December 2007. The researchers included 40 recordsfrom calls of young people aged between 16 and 24 years who consumed crack cocaine, associated or not with other substances.

Brief Motivational Intervention and telemedicine: a new perspective of treatment to marijuana users.

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the telephone Brief Motivational Intervention (BMI) efficacy in marijuana consumption cessation. A clinical trial was performed on Brazilian citizens, who were randomly divided into experimental (BMI) and minimal intervention (reference material) treatment groups; the study involved 524 participants who were monitored for 6 months. In addition, the data was collected by a free-service call center; both marijuana consumption and level of motivation for behavior change were evaluated, based on the telephone service offered.