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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2013 Dec;38(12):2821-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.08.018. Epub 2013 Aug 26.

Mindfulness-based relapse prevention with racial and ethnic minority women

Katie Witkiewitz  1 , Brenna L Greenfield, Sarah Bowen
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Mindfulness-based relapse prevention with racial and ethnic minority women

Katie Witkiewitz et al. Addict Behav. 2013 Dec.

Abstract

Racial and ethnic disparities in the treatment of addiction have been acknowledged for several years, yet little is known about which empirically supported treatments for substance use disorders are more or less effective in treating racial and ethnic minority clients. The current study was a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial of two evidence-based treatments, mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) and relapse prevention (RP), as part of a residential addiction treatment program for women referred by the criminal justice system (n=70). At 15-week follow-up, regression analyses found that racial and ethnic minority women in MBRP, compared to non-Hispanic and racial and ethnic minority women in RP, reported significantly fewer drug use days (d=.31) and lower addiction severity (d=.65), based on the Addiction Severity Index. Although the small sample size is a limitation, the results suggest that MBRP may be more efficacious than traditional treatments for racial and ethnic minority women.

Keywords: Addiction; Ethnicity; Mindfulness-based relapse prevention; Minority; Race; Substance use disorders.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: All other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Figures

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Fig. 1
Addiction Severity Index (ASI) total scores by racial or ethnic minority status and treatment group (relapse prevention (RP, dark gray) and mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP; white).
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