Psychometric Evaluation of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) in an Inpatient Sample of Substance Users Using Cue-Reactivity Methodology

The Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS), a widely used self-report questionnaire, assesses four personality traits which predict risk for substance use (i.e., anxiety sensitivity, hopelessness, impulsivity, and sensation seeking). Given its use in research and clinical settings, as well as potential utility, this study aimed to provide a comprehensive psychometric evaluation of the SURPS. Undergraduate participants ( N = 718; 69% White; 26% Hispanic, aged 18-25 years, M = 19.00, SD = 1.33) completed a battery of measures, including the SURPS. Tests of measurement invariance, convergent and criterion validity, and internal consistency were conducted, as well as item response theory analyses and a treatment assignment simulation. Several items were removed before partial measurement invariance across gender was established with little information lost. Despite removing several SURPS items, the proposed factor structure was not empirically supported. More work is necessary to determine the predictive utility of assessing these personality traits to predict substance-related outcomes.

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Substance Use Risk Profile Scale--Bulgarian Version

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t70671-000 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Elizabeth C. Long ◽

Svetla Milcheva ◽

Elena Psederska ◽

Georgi Vasilev ◽

Kiril Bozgunov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Risk Profile

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Substance Use Risk Profile Scale--Italian Version

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t75862-000 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Roberta Biolcati ◽

Stefano Passini

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Risk Profile ◽

Italian Version

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The causal attributions of substance use in clients’ change talk during motivational interviewing

Communication & Medicine ◽

10.1558/cam.v11i3.29774 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Harri Sarpavaara

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Motivational Interviewing ◽

Causal Attributions ◽

Working Life ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Substance Use Treatment ◽

Substance Users ◽

Change Talk ◽

Probation Service ◽

Indexical Sign

The objective of this study is to provide insights into substance users’ beliefs about the causes of substance use, in order to expand the current understanding of the significance of the client’s change-related talk during motivational interviewing (MI) sessions. In particular, it focuses on what kind of causes the substance-using clients attribute their substance use to in change talk during MI. The analyses are based on videotaped and transcribed data consisting of 98 MI sessions in the Finnish Probation Service. By applying Peirce’s semiotic theory of signs, this study investigates clients’ change talk utterances about causal attributions of substance use as an indexical sign. The results show that the clients attributed various causes to substance use, and that five main causes can be discerned: cultural factors, significant others, personal properties, working life, and lifestyle. The study displays that both sociocultural and psychological causes play an important role in substance users’ change talk. Thus, it is suggested that contextual factors should not be overlooked in MI and other substance use treatment.

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Nonjudgmental acceptance: Associations with substance-related cue reactivity in adults with substance use disorders and posttraumatic stress

Addictive Behaviors ◽

10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107211 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 126 ◽

pp. 107211

Author(s):

Anka A. Vujanovic ◽

Heather E. Webber ◽

Margaret C. Wardle ◽

Charles E. Green ◽

Scott D. Lane ◽

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Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Substance Use Disorders ◽

Cue Reactivity

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The substance use risk profile scale: A scale measuring traits linked to reinforcement-specific substance use profiles

Addictive Behaviors ◽

10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.07.001 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 34 (12) ◽

pp. 1042-1055 ◽

Cited By ~ 269

Author(s):

Patricia A. Woicik ◽

Sherry H. Stewart ◽

Robert O. Pihl ◽

Patricia J. Conrod

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Risk Profile ◽

Specific Substance

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Substances use and its association with socio-demographic, family, and environment-related factors among technical and vocational education and training College students in Ataye, Ethiopia.

10.21203/rs.3.rs-15681/v7 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

abate dargie wubetu ◽

Sintayehu Getachew ◽

Wassie Negash

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Substance Use ◽

Vocational Education ◽

Associated Factors ◽

Education And Training ◽

Vocational Education And Training ◽

Substance Users ◽

Technical And Vocational Education ◽

Legal Substances ◽

And Training

Abstract Background: Legal substances use is prevalent in Ethiopia. Substance use can have several health problems that are potentially harmful to educational performance, social issues, psychological and physical wellbeing. This study aimed to know the prevalence of lifetime and last month’s substance use and its associated factors among technical and vocational education and training College students in Ataye town. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from 1 March to last May 2019. Participants were selected using a simple random sampling technique. Data collected by using a structured and pretested interviewer-administered questionnaire. Data collected by five trained diploma nurses with close supervision. Odds ratio with their 95% confidence interval, and p-value less than 0.05 used to declare the statistical significance of associated factors. Results: Four hundred eighty-three individuals participated in the study, which was a response rate of 94%. The prevalence of lifetime legal substance use was 32.5% (95% CI: 28.2, 36.5). The prevalence of last month's legal substances use was 21.9% (95% CI= 18.2, 25.5). Among lifetime legal substance users, the majority (25.5%) chewed khat. The others, (19.5%) drunk alcohol, and, 15.3% smoked cigarettes in a lifetime. Lifetime cannabis and cocaine users were 2.5%, and 7.2% respectively. Among last month's legal substance users, (21.9%) chewed khat followed by alcohol drinking (16.6%), and cigarette smoking (15.3%). In the last month, 1.2% and 3.3% of students used cannabis and cocaine respectively. Multivariate logistic regression showed that being male, having a divorced family, living greater than twenty years in the town, having substance user family members, having intimate friend substance users, and easy availability of substances were independent predictors of lifetime legal substances use. Conclusions: The prevalence of last month and lifetime legal substance use at Ataye Technical and Vocational Education and Training ( TVET ) college students were analogous with most studies done in Ethiopia. It is advisable if the college administrators work together with town administrators to mitigate the problem including closing substance use houses around the school. Overall, Substance use among adolescents should get further emphasis to lower the prevalence.

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Impulsivity and Drug-Seeking Behavior in Substance Misuse

Substance Use Disorders ◽

10.1093/med/9780190920197.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 65-86

Author(s):

Noelle C. Anastasio ◽

Dennis J. Sholler ◽

Brionna D. Davis-Reyes ◽

Amanda E. Price ◽

Michelle A. Land ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Cue Reactivity ◽

Complex Nature ◽

Psychoactive Drugs ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Drug Seeking ◽

Drug Cues ◽

Seeking Behavior ◽

The Impact ◽

Substances Of Abuse

Vulnerability to initiate use of psychoactive drugs as well as relapse to drug-seeking in patients with established substance use disorders are precipitated by behavioral disinhibition or impulsivity (a predisposition toward rapid unplanned reactions to stimuli without regard to negative consequences) and attentional bias toward drug cues (cue reactivity). These behavioral phenotypes are not independent mechanistically nor neurobiologically, and preclinical analyses have demonstrated the complex nature of the interactions between these interlocked phenotypic behaviors, including aspects of their shared neurobiology and circuitry. This chapter focuses on impulsivity and drug-seeking behaviors from a preclinical perspective and summarizes studies exploring the impact of substances of abuse in the context of the neurobiology of impulsivity and drug-seeking behaviors in rodents.

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