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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2019 Feb:97:47-58.
doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2018.11.009. Epub 2018 Nov 24.

Does a history of violent offending impact treatment response for comorbid PTSD and substance use disorders? A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Teresa López-Castro  1 , Kathryn Z Smith  2 , Ronald A Nicholson  3 , Aeriell Armas  3 , Denise A Hien  4
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Does a history of violent offending impact treatment response for comorbid PTSD and substance use disorders? A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Teresa López-Castro et al. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2019 Feb.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Estimated prototypical trajectories of PTSD symptom severity for COPE and RPT, with or without a violent offending history.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Estimated mean levels of PTSD symptom severity for COPE and RPT at posttreatment for those with and without a history of violent offending. The bottom shaded region suggests asymptomatic levels of PTSD symptom severity (about 17 points and lower) on the MPSS-SR, while the top shaded region suggests mild/subthreshold levels of PTSD symptom severity (about 17.5 to 34.99 points) (Ruglass et al., 2014). The plus sign indicates that for those in RPT, estimates of PTSD symptom severity for those with and without a violent offending history are significantly different from one another at posttreatment. The asterisks indicate for those with a history of violent offending, estimates of PTSD symptom severity at posttreatment are significantly lower for those in COPE compared to those in RPT.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Estimated mean count of weekly days of substance use for COPE and RPT at posttreatment for those with and without a history of violent offending. The asterisks indicate for those in COPE, a history of violent offending was associated with significantly lower days of use at posttreatment compared to those without a history of violent offending.
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