Finding purpose: Integrated latent profile and machine learning analyses identify purpose in life as an important predictor of high-functioning recovery after alcohol treatment.

Journal: Addictive behaviors
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Recent investigations of recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD) have distinguished subgroups of high and low functioning recovery in data from randomized controlled trials of behavioral treatments for AUD. Analyses considered various indicators of alcohol use, life satisfaction, and psychosocial functioning, and identified four recovery profiles from AUD three years following treatment.

Authors

  • Frank J Schwebel
    University of New Mexico, USA. Electronic address: fschwebel@unm.edu.
  • Adam D Wilson
    University of New Mexico, USA.
  • Matthew R Pearson
    University of New Mexico, USA.
  • Matison W McCool
    University of New Mexico, USA.
  • Katie Witkiewitz
    Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions (CASAA), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.