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    • Music therapy: a novel motivational approach for dually diagnosed patients
      Ross, Stephen; Cidambi, Indra; Dermatis, Helen; Weinstein, Jason; Ziedonis, Douglas M.; Roth, Serena; Galanter, Marc (2008-06-17)
      Co-occurring mental illness and addiction is very common and results in worse treatment outcomes compared to singly diagnosed addicted individuals. Integrated treatment for co-occurring disorders is associated with better treatment outcomes; however there is a wide range of what is included in integrated treatment. Due to patient and staff interests, integrated treatment often includes complementary and alternative therapies, including music and art therapy. There is a need to study how these approaches effect treatment engagement, retention, and outcome. This study was a prospective naturalistic non-randomized pilot study without a control group that sought to evaluate how participation in a music therapy program affected treatment outcomes for individuals with co-occurring mental illness and addiction. In summary, music therapy appears to be a novel motivational tool in a severely impaired inpatient sample of patients with co-occurring disorders. Future studies of music therapy in integrated co-occurring disorder setting should include a control group.

    • The power and the promise: working with communities to analyze data, interpret findings, and get to outcomes
      Cashman, Suzanne B.; Adeky, Sarah; Allen, Alex J.; Corburn, Jason; Israel, Barbara A.; Montaño, Jaime; Rafelito, Alvin; Rhodes, Scott D.; Swanston, Samara; Wallerstein, Nina; et al. (2008-06-17)
      Although the intent of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is to include community voices in all phases of a research initiative, community partners appear less frequently engaged in data analysis and interpretation than in other research phases. Using 4 brief case studies, each with a different data collection methodology, we provide examples of how community members participated in data analysis, interpretation, or both, thereby strengthening community capacity and providing unique insight. The roles and skills of the community and academic partners were different from but complementary to each other. We suggest that including community partners in data analysis and interpretation, while lengthening project time, enriches insights and findings and consequently should be a focus of the next generation of CBPR initiatives.