Evaluating alcoholics anonymous sponsor attributes using conjoint analysis

Is it beneficial to have an alcoholics anonymous sponsor?

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) attendance is predictive of increased abstinence for many problem drinkers and treatment referral to AA is common. Strong encouragement to acquire an AA sponsor is likewise typical, and findings about the benefits associated with social support for abstinence in AA support this practice, at least indirectly. Despite this widespread practice, however, prospective tests ...

Evaluating User Preferences in Machine Translation Using Conjoint Analysis

In spite of much ongoing research on machine translation evaluation there is little quantitative work that directly measures users’ intuitive or emotional preferences regarding different types of machine translation errors. However, the elicitation and modeling of user preferences is an important prerequisite for future research on user adaptation and customization of machine translation engine...

Evaluating Consumer Preferences for Medicare Part D Using Conjoint Analysis

Alcoholics Anonymous: cult or cure?

OBJECTIVE To discuss the mechanism of action, the efficacy and the safety of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in the treatment of alcoholism. METHOD The published works on effective treatments for alcoholism is briefly reviewed and a prospective multidisciplinary follow-up of recovery from alcoholism in two community cohorts of adolescent males followed from 1940 until the present day is reviewed. ...

Special populations in Alcoholics Anonymous.

The vast majority of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) members in the United States are white, and only a few studies have investigated the program's effectiveness for ethnic minorities. Project MATCH, a multisite research study aimed at developing guidelines for assigning alcoholics to appropriate treatment approaches, also assessed AA effectiveness for minority clients. Some differences in AA attenda...