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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2015 Aug:55:52-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2015.02.006. Epub 2015 Mar 5.

Adapting the helpful responses questionnaire to assess communication skills involved in delivering contingency management: preliminary psychometrics

Bryan Hartzler  1
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Adapting the helpful responses questionnaire to assess communication skills involved in delivering contingency management: preliminary psychometrics

Bryan Hartzler. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2015 Aug.

Abstract

A paper/pencil instrument, adapted from Miller and colleagues' (1991) Helpful Responses Questionnaire (HRQ), was developed to assess clinician skill with core communicative aspects involved in delivering contingency management (CM). The instrument presents a single vignette consisting of six points of client dialogue to which respondents write 'what they would say next.' In the context of an implementation/effectiveness hybrid trial, 19 staff clinicians at an opiate treatment program completed serial training outcome assessments before, following, and three months after CM training. Assessments included this adaptation of the HRQ, a multiple-choice CM knowledge test, and a recorded standardized patient encounter scored for CM skillfulness. Study results reveal promising psychometric properties for the instrument, including strong scoring reliability, internal consistency, concurrent and predictive validity, test-retest reliability and sensitivity to training effects. These preliminary findings suggest the instrument is a viable, practical method to assess clinician skill in communicative aspects of CM delivery.

Keywords: Contingency management; Dissemination and implementation; Scale development.

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