Predictive Factors of Readiness for Change During Inpatient Treatment

Abstract

Recovery blesses those it rescues from addiction; however, alcoholics/addicts must be ready for recovery before it can claim them. Inpatient treatment therefore can be effective if it increases addicts' readiness for change. However, research is needed on factors associated with an alcoholic/addict becoming ready for change. Hope, resiliency, family functioning, and craving are important factors of addiction and recovery included in this study in a logistic regression that assesses their relationship to an addict's readiness for change. Along with baseline treatment levels of readiness, increases in hope and decreases in craving significantly associated with increased readiness for change posttreatment.

WITHDRAWN: Examining Substance Use Services and Treatment Barriers and Needs among People with Lived Experience (PWLE) in Ontario, Canada.

“…This can be achieved by creating opportunities for client engagement to allow their needs and concerns to be heard by empathetic and enthusiastic service providers who can work with them towards reaching their goals, and who can assess the client's current state of readiness on an ongoing basis by providing frequent one-on-one needs assessments [61]. Such a patient-centered, collaborative approach would allow clients' voices and needs to be paramount in their treatment plan, which would increase willingness for recovery and ultimately the success of treatment [61][62][63][64]. Service providers should actively seek out, employ and collaborate with PWLE who are experientially quali ed to help design and deliver client-centred substance use programs.…”

Is there room for resilience? A scoping review and critique of substance use literature and its utilization of the concept of resilience

“…Researchers should analyze multiple levels of functioning, including the individual, their life, and their environment, using a human ecology framework. [ 148 ] Bradshaw et al, 2013; ( n = 149); US • Residential treatment facility participants Sinclair & Wallston – Brief Resilience Coping Scale Resilience is an “inner state or intrinsic quality of the human psyche” (Burke, 2006) relevant to the addiction recovery process (Harris et al, 2011). It is the ability to experience pain and difficulty and “snap back” toward an “active process of self-righting and growth” (Higgins, 1994).…”

“…Definitions of resilience in papers on recovery commonly focus on ‘bouncing back’ from adversity, with addiction considered the most prominent form of adversity [ 126 , 143 , 148 , 179 ]. Drug use is often portrayed as a maladaptive coping strategy, and resilience is defined as being able to stay on the path toward recovery from addiction [ 142 , 179 ].…”

“…Drug use is often portrayed as a maladaptive coping strategy, and resilience is defined as being able to stay on the path toward recovery from addiction [ 142 , 179 ]. Maintaining long-term sobriety is considered a positive outcome in these studies [ 102 , 148 , 180 ]. Harris et al [ 142 ], in their Process Model of Addiction and Recovery, stress the idea of ‘resilience to relapse’ by stating that the ‘compulsive cycle of substance dependence’ shows a lack of resilience, while the ‘coping cycle of recovery’ demonstrates resilience in action.…”

Addiction and the Mediation of Hope on Craving, Readiness, and Coping

“…Additionally, inclinations to use and inclinations to abstain were found to be negatively correlated (McEvoy, 2004). Additional research has shown that changes in levels of craving during inpatient treatment significantly increase the odds of addicts increasing in RTC as a result of inpatient treatment (Bradshaw, Shumway, Harris, & Baker, 2013).…”