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Improving psychosocial health and employment outcomes for individuals receiving methadone treatment: a realist synthesis of what makes interventions work

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Psychology, September 2014
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Title
Improving psychosocial health and employment outcomes for individuals receiving methadone treatment: a realist synthesis of what makes interventions work
Published in
BMC Psychology, September 2014
DOI 10.1186/s40359-014-0026-3
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lois A Jackson, Jane A Buxton, Julie Dingwell, Margaret Dykeman, Jacqueline Gahagan, Karen Gallant, Jeff Karabanow, Susan Kirkland, Dolores LeVangie, Ingrid Sketris, Michael Gossop, Carolyn Davison

Abstract

For over 50 years, methadone has been prescribed to opioid-dependent individuals as a pharmacological approach for alleviating the symptoms of opioid withdrawal. However, individuals prescribed methadone sometimes require additional interventions (e.g., counseling) to further improve their health. This study undertook a realist synthesis of evaluations of interventions aimed at improving the psychosocial and employment outcomes of individuals on methadone treatment, to determine what interventions work (or not) and why.

Mendeley readers

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 49 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 48 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 24%
Researcher 8 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 6%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Professor 2 4%
Other 10 20%
Unknown 11 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 22%
Psychology 9 18%
Social Sciences 5 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 12 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 June 2017.
All research outputs
#8,344,703
of 25,587,485 outputs
Outputs from BMC Psychology
#607
of 1,126 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#79,389
of 250,572 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Psychology
#7
of 16 outputs
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