Does sponsorship improve outcomes above Alcoholics Anonymous attendance? A latent class growth curve analysis.
ABSTRACT Aims To construct Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) attendance, sponsorship and abstinence latent class trajectories to test the added benefit of having a sponsor above the benefits of attendance in predicting abstinence over time. Design Prospective with 1-, 3-, 5- and 7-year follow-ups. Setting a...
| Publicado en: | Addiction Vol. 107; no. 2; pp. 301 - 312 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2012
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