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. 2021 Oct 20;2021(10):CD011723. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011723.pub2

Black 2019.

Study characteristics
Methods Study design: randomized controlled trial
Study grouping: parallel group
Participants Substance: various substances
Baseline characteristics
Mindfulness‐based intervention
  • Number randomized: 114


Control 1
  • Number randomized: 111


Overall
  • Number randomized: 225


Included criteria: client at site, female, age 18 to 65, diagnosed with SUD in clinical record, fluent in English
Excluded criteria: inability to comprehend or sign consent, cognitive impairment, untreated psychotic disorder or severe chronic mental health conditions, suicidality during the prior 30 days, current prisoner, more than 6 months pregnant, not willing to sign a HIPAA form or be audio‐recorded
Number missing: 41
Reason missing: missed first class, not found, passive decline, prison
Baseline differences: none
Age: 32.5
Percent female: 100%
Race/Ethnicity: 58% Latina, 19.5% non‐Hispanic Black, 21% non‐Hispanic White, 1.5% other
Interventions Intervention characteristics
Mindfulness‐based intervention
  • Group name: Moment‐by‐Moment in Women's Recovery

  • Theory: MBSR and Vallejo and Amaro (2009)

  • Duration: 6 weeks

  • Timing: 2x week for 80 minutes

  • Delivery: group

  • Providers: experienced MBSR and MMWR teacher with on‐site masters‐level clinician with SUD experience

  • Co‐intervention: residential TAU

  • Integrity: yes

  • Compliance: not reported


Control 1
  • Group name: Neurobiology of Addiction

  • Theory: Amaro et al. (2016)

  • Duration: 6 weeks

  • Timing: 2x week for 80 minutes

  • Delivery: group

  • Providers: Masters‐level educator with background and training in NA with on‐site masters‐level clinician with SUD experience

  • Co‐intervention: residential TAU

  • Integrity: yes

  • Compliance: not reported

Outcomes Penn Alcohol Craving Scale
  • Outcome type: continuous outcome

  • Reporting: fully reported

  • Direction: lower is better

  • Data value: endpoint

  • Time point: post‐treatment


Treatment acceptability (attrition)
  • Outcome type: dichotomous outcome

  • Reporting: fully reported

  • Direction: lower is better

  • Data value: endpoint

  • Time point: post‐treatment

Identification Sponsorship source: NIDA, NIAAA
Country: USA
Setting: residential
Authors name: David S. Black
Institution: University of Southern California
Email: davidbla@usc.edu
Address: Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90032.
COI: none
Diagnosis tool: DSM‐5
Diagnosis type: formal
Funding: NIDA, NIAAA
Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publication type: published report
Secondary publications: none
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Judgement comment: urn randomization (p. 4)
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Judgement comment: concealed until first group meeting
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes High risk Judgement comment: no blinding of participants, but blinding of staff
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
Treatment acceptability (attrition) Low risk Objective measure
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
All non‐attrition outcomes High risk Self‐report measure
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes Low risk Judgement comment: similar attrition across groups
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk Judgement comment: not all pre‐specified outcomes reported
Other bias: equivalence of baseline characteristics (selection bias) Low risk Judgement comment: no statistically significant differences at baseline