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Spending money to make change: Association of methamphetamine abstinence and voucher spending among contingency management pilot participants in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2020
Methamphetamine Use Disorder is prevalent in South Africa. This analysis uses data from a contingency management (CM) pilot study in South Africa to replicate and expand on a U.S.-based study showing that CM voucher spending was associated with drug abstinence behavior.Participants with methamphetamine-use disorder were enrolled in an 8-week CM trial ...
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Potential Effect of Vouchers on the Completion of Self-management Education Among Patients With Diabetes

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2020
Diabetes is a significant public health problem in eastern North Carolina, and completion of formal diabetes self-management education (DSME) is low. To seek methods to increase DSME completion, patients with diabetes in an eastern North Carolina regional health care system who had not completed DSME (n = 58) were surveyed during wellness visits to ...
Mary Jane, Lyonnais   +4 more
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Voucher Purchases in Contingency Management Interventions for Women with Cocaine Dependence

Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment, 2004
Objective Voucher-based Contingency Management (CM) has been shown to be effective in treating cocaine dependence, but the relative impact of extensive voucher purchase guidelines has not been evaluated. Consequently, our objective was to investigate the effect of purchase guidelines on voucher purchases.
Michael V. Pantalon   +5 more
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Vouchers Versus Prizes: Contingency Management Treatment of Substance Abusers in Community Settings.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Contingency management (CM) interventions usually use vouchers as reinforcers, but a new technique awards chances of winning prizes. This study compares these approaches. In community treatment centers, 142 cocaine- or heroin-dependent outpatients were randomly assigned to standard treatment (ST), ST with vouchers, or ST with prizes for 12 weeks.
Nancy M, Petry   +4 more
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A Comparison of Voucher Exchanges Between Criminal Justice Involved and Noninvolved Participants Enrolled in Voucher-Based Contingency Management Drug Abuse Treatment Programs

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2005
This report compares requests for goods or services made by participants in two clinical trials of contingency management for the treatment of substance abuse. One trial was for participants involved with the criminal justice system and one was for participants who were not involved with the criminal justice system.
John M, Roll   +4 more
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Impulsivity and voucher versus money preference in polydrug-dependent participants enrolled in a contingency-management-based substance abuse treatment program

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2000
Thirty-four polydrug-dependent participants enrolled in a voucher-based substance abuse treatment program were given choices between hypothetical amounts of money and hypothetical amounts of vouchers, which are traded for goods and services, to determine their preferences for the two payment modalities.
Mark P Reilly, Karen K Downey
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Management Focus - Childcare Vouchers - Hitting high earners

Nursery World, 2011
Timely advice on keeping tax credits has been issued by two leading childcare voucher suppliers, as they tell Karen Faux.
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Managing Demand in Higher Education: the Voucher as a Market Oriented Tool

2007
It is widely recognised that pressure on today’s public systems is leading them to adopt functioning models that are better suited to current conditions. In the context of Higher Education (HE), the tendency in recent years in many European countries has been to organize the university sector as a quasi-market, characterised by a considerable degree of
CAPPIELLO, GIUSEPPE, T. Agasisti
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Design and Implementation of a Secure and Distributed Electronic Voucher Management System

The 10th International Conference on Computer and Communications Management, 2022
M. Fahim Ferdous Khan, Ken Sakamura
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The 500 Day Initiative: an innovative standard operating procedure assisting Detroit Housing Commission voucher recipients with 24 hour case management services

2020
The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates that there are at least 553,700 persons experiencing homelessness on a given night within the United States (2020). This estimate is equivalent to five football stadiums full of people. Many efforts have been presented over the last thirty years within the U.S.
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