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

Foroushani 2019.

Study characteristics
Methods Study design: randomized controlled trial
Study grouping: parallel group
Participants Substance: opioids
Baseline characteristics
Mindfulness‐based intervention
  • Number randomized: 30


Control 1
  • Number randomized: 30


Overall
  • Number randomized: 60


Included criteria: male, receiving methadone maintenance therapy, three lapses during MMT
Excluded criteria: absence from 2+ sessions for experimental group
Number missing: 5
Reason missing: not reported
Baseline differences: unclear
age: 35.5
Race/Ethnicity: Iranian
Interventions Intervention characteristics
Mindfulness‐based intervention
  • Group name: MBRP

  • Theory: Bowen et al. (2011)

  • Duration: 8 weeks

  • Timing: 1x week for 2 hours.

  • Delivery: group

  • Providers: not reported

  • Co‐intervention: methadone maintenance treatment

  • Integrity: not reported

  • Compliance: not reported


Control 1: No treatment control
  • Co‐intervention: methadone maintenance treatment

Outcomes Treatment acceptability (attrition)
  • Outcome type: dichotomous outcome

  • Reporting: fully reported

  • Direction: lower is better

  • Data value: endpoint

  • Time point: post‐treatment

Identification Sponsorship source: internal funds
Country: Iran
Setting: not residential
Authors name: Nahid Sarami Foroushani
Institution: Islamic Azad University
Email: nahid.sarami97@gmail.com
Address: Department of Psychology, Khomeinishar Branch, Islamic Azad University, 581796781, Isfahan, Iran
COI: none
Diagnosis tool: receiving methadone maintenance therapy at addiction treatment center
Diagnosis type: informal
Funding: internal funds
Journal: Heroin Addiction & Related Clinical Problems
Publication type: published report
Secondary publications:
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Judgement comment: not reported
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Judgement comment: not reported
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes High risk Judgement comment: no blinding
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
Treatment acceptability (attrition) Low risk Objective measure
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes High risk Judgement comment: dropout only in the treatment group, did not use ITT
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Judgement comment: no protocol available, no statement of primary outcome
Other bias: equivalence of baseline characteristics (selection bias) Unclear risk Judgement comment: not reported