{"title":"Autoevaluación y Formación Continuada en Trastornos Adictivos","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70051-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70051-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89512,"journal":{"name":"Trastornos adictivos","volume":"14 3","pages":"Pages 96-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70051-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136855187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Sayans Jiménez , F. Fernández Calderón , C. Vidal Giné , A.J. Rojas Tejada
{"title":"Aplicación de un modelo politómico de TRI al test ASSIST para el estudio de sus propiedades métricas","authors":"P. Sayans Jiménez , F. Fernández Calderón , C. Vidal Giné , A.J. Rojas Tejada","doi":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70044-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70044-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cocaine is, second after cannabis, the most used illegal drug in Europe and Spain. Its use is primarily linked to recreational nightlife settings and young adults who are reluctant to contact with health services and draw on these when they develop serious drug problems. Therefore, screening tools are needed to help early detection of problems related to cocaine use.</p></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><p>The aim of this paper is to analyse the psychometric properties of an online self-applied version of ASSIST (Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test).</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>The sample consisted of 1176 cocaine users who completed the ASSIST online. The psychometric properties are studied using the Partial Credit Model, within the family Item Response Theory (IRT).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>In general terms, the degree to which the test response data are as expected from the model is good. However, ASSIST test shows a poor fit of the response categories. Similarly, the relative positions of the items on the continuum imply poor measurement of people with low levels of risk associated with drug use.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>ASSIST analysis from the perspective of IRT has showed some shortcomings in this test when applied to this type of sample of cocaine users. Despite good item calibration, several improvements to reduce the measurement error in people with low levels of risk associated with cocaine use (construct) and changes in responses categories are proposed</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89512,"journal":{"name":"Trastornos adictivos","volume":"14 2","pages":"Pages 50-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70044-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56515420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptación de instrumentos entre culturas: ejemplos de procedimientos seguidos para medir las expectativas hacia el alcohol en el ámbito argentino","authors":"A. Pilatti , J.C. Godoy , S.A. Brussino","doi":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70045-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70045-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A test developed to measure a psychological variable cannot be directly used in a different group. Indeed, it is important to perform a series of tasks to ensure adequate psychometric properties for the new application of the test. The literature suggests three different level of adaptation of a test: application, adaptation and assembled. The International Tests Commission established a number of recommendations designed to minimize the error in the process of adaptation of instruments. In this framework, this study aims to provide a description of the different adaptation processes followed to obtain instruments to measure alcohol expectancies. To pursue this goal, each of the experiences is presented as an independent study. Results showed how a higher level of complexity in the type of adaptation performed, and therefore in control bias, is reflected by improvements in psychometric adequacy of the instruments. All examples presented allow highlighting the importance of considering the particular social and cultural aspects of the target.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89512,"journal":{"name":"Trastornos adictivos","volume":"14 2","pages":"Pages 58-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70045-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56515427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El rol de la metodología en el estudio de las adicciones","authors":"O.M. Lozanoa , A. Verdejo-Garcíab","doi":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70041-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70041-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89512,"journal":{"name":"Trastornos adictivos","volume":"14 2","pages":"Pages 35-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70041-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56515384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. García-Velázquez, S. Martín-Gandullo, A. Vélez-Moreno, O.M. Lozano
{"title":"Aproximaciones metodológicas en la investigación nosológica del trastorno por uso de sustancias","authors":"R. García-Velázquez, S. Martín-Gandullo, A. Vélez-Moreno, O.M. Lozano","doi":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70042-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70042-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Research on nosology of substance use disorders has been increased in recent years. New statistical and psychometric models are providing new ways to understand these disorders.</p></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><p>The aim of this work is providing the main results from a review concerning the application of these models to Substance Use Disorders.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>A review was conducted in PubMed and PsycInfo with completion in March 2012. Keywords used: ‘nosology’, ‘dimensionality’ and ‘factorial structure’ with different substances.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Studies challenge the categorical system for diagnosis, recognizing the existence of different severity profiles. Moreover, the empirical evidence supports a continuum of substance use disorders, whit abuse and dependence criteria included.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Empirical evidence supports modifications in the diagnosis process of Substance Use Disorders for DSM-V. Such changes should also be considered regarding to their applicability in the clinical setting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89512,"journal":{"name":"Trastornos adictivos","volume":"14 2","pages":"Pages 37-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70042-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56515396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Carmona Perera , A. Molina-Fernández , M. Pérez García
{"title":"Juicios morales en drogodependencias","authors":"M. Carmona Perera , A. Molina-Fernández , M. Pérez García","doi":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70039-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70039-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Drug abuse is associated with psychosocial and legal issues, however the characteristics of moral decision-making in this population are unknown. Moral psychology and neuroscience reveals key roles for cognitive-emotional processes, skills that are significantly altered in the drug dependent population.</p></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>The aim of study was to investigate moral judgments in polysubstance abusers following therapeutic community treatment.</p></div><div><h3>Material and methods</h3><p>The sample was composed by 32 polysubstance-dependent males and 32 non-drug users, who completed the Battery of moral dilemmas by Moore validated to Spanish population.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The results showed significant between group differences in moral judgments; polysubstance abusers followed a utilitarian pattern which assumes an emotionally aversive behavior in favor of communitarian well-being (i.e. kill one person to save more lives).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>These findings suggests an alteration in moral decision-making in polysubstance abusers, which could be related to psychosocial and legal problems (drug trafficking, theft, etc.) that typically occur in this population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89512,"journal":{"name":"Trastornos adictivos","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 21-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70039-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56515358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cognición social en adicciones","authors":"J. Tirapu Ustárroz","doi":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70037-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70037-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social cognition refers to the array of cognitive processes involved in social interaction scenarios. Both basic components of social cognition and manifest social behavior are impaired in patients with addiction. Therefore, in recent years, there is a burgeoning interest in the basic and clinical implications of social cognition deficits in addicted individuals, and in the potential advantages of developing treatments related to social cognition skills in the context of addiction.</p><p>Social cognition is composed of a myriad of cognitive and emotional processes involved in emotional perception, mental states simulation and prediction, and learning processes relevant to optimize adjustment to social-affective scenarios. These processes are linked to the functioning of brain systems involved in the generation, simulation and regulation of emotions, such as prefrontal and parietal cortices, cingulate and insular association regions or the amygdala; these systems are also importantly involved in the addiction process.</p><p>There is a need to consider and thoroughly assess social cognition skills in addiction-related research and treatment settings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89512,"journal":{"name":"Trastornos adictivos","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 3-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70037-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56515335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M.J. Fernández-Serrano , L. Moreno-López , M. Pérez-García , A. Verdejo-García
{"title":"Inteligencia emocional en individuos dependientes de cocaína","authors":"M.J. Fernández-Serrano , L. Moreno-López , M. Pérez-García , A. Verdejo-García","doi":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70040-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70040-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aim</h3><p>Cocaine dependence drastically affects the social functioning of cocaine users, which could reflect an impairment of emotional intelligence. Despite its importance, most studies in cocaine users have focused only on the recognition of facial emotional expressions. The main aim of this study is to explore emotional intelligence in cocaine users and to examine its relation with emotional recognition.</p></div><div><h3>Material and methods</h3><p>Thirty-one cocaine dependent individuals (CDI) and 53 healthy control individuals were assessed using The Constructive Thinking Inventory (for emotional intelligence) and The Ekman Faces Test (for emotional recognition).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>CDI scored lower in emotional intelligence and on the subscales: emotional coping, behavioral coping and categorical thinking. CDI had significantly poorer global emotional recognition and poorer recognition for facial expressions of disgust. Emotional intelligence correlates with the ability to recognize facial emotional expressions, showing the link between both skills.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>CDI show impairments on emotional intelligence and on the ability to recognize facial emotional expressions. These impairments are related with an inflexible structure of thought, lack of decision on unpredictable situations and therefore difficulties in establishing rewarding social relationships. These impairments may affect the success of cocaine rehabilitation programs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89512,"journal":{"name":"Trastornos adictivos","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 27-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70040-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56515372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Procesamiento emocional, interocepción y funciones ejecutivas en policonsumidores de drogas en tratamiento","authors":"E. Villalba Ruiz , A. Verdejo-García","doi":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70038-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70038-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objetive</h3><p>The main aim of this study is to characterize the profile of emotional functioning (emotion recognition and experience and interoception) and neuropsychological performance (frontal-executive related behavioural dysfunction, flexibility and decision-making) in polysubstance users vs. controls.</p></div><div><h3>Material and method</h3><p>The sample is composed by 60 subjects: 30 polysubstance abusers currently in treatment and 30 healthy individuals that formed the control group. Questionnaire measures were used to assess interoception and alexythimia, and performance tests were used for assessment of emotion recognition and experience and executive functions.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Polysubstance abusers showed increased levels of alexithymia and somatosensory amplification, poorer recognition of fear, sadness and disgust, and a flattened arousal response towards natural reinforcing stimuli. With regard to neuropsychological performance, polysubstance abusers had poorer switching and greater behavioural problems related to frontal striatal systems than the control group. We found significant correlations between alexithymia and somatosensory amplification, both dimensions correlated with executive dysfunctions, and between decision making and perception of fear.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Polysubstance abusers have combined interrelated deficits in neurocognitive and emotional functions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89512,"journal":{"name":"Trastornos adictivos","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 10-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1575-0973(12)70038-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56515346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}