UMD Theses and Dissertations

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    Preliminary Trial of a Behavioral Activation-Enhanced Smoking Cessation Program among Substance Users with Elevated Depressive Symptoms in Residential Treatment
    (2012) Banducci, Anne Nicole; Lejuez, Carl W; MacPherson, Laura; Psychology; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Individuals with elevated depressive symptoms and substance use disorders (SUDs) have particular difficulties quitting smoking and few treatments benefit these individuals. The current study compared five session BA-enhanced smoking cessation treatment + nicotine replacement therapy (BADAS) to smoking cessation treatment as usual (TAU; nicotine replacement therapy + Clearing the Air self-help manual). We hypothesized that participants in BADAS would be less likely to relapse, would have higher abstinence rates, would smoke fewer cigarettes, would exhibit decreases in depressive symptoms, and would have increases in environmental reward, as compared to TAU. Participants in residential treatment with elevated depressive symptoms and SUDs and were randomized to BADAS or to TAU. Participants in BADAS were significantly less likely to relapse during the first week post-quit; abstinence and cigarette consumption rates did not differ significantly across treatments. All participants displayed reductions in depressive symptoms and increases in activation; treatment condition was not significant.
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    An Examination of the Pathways of Depressive Symptoms and Heavy Drinking from Adolescence to Adulthood
    (2011) Gustafson, Emily Anne; Stein, William; Psychology; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This study examined the dynamic interaction of heavy alcohol use and depressive symptoms at three points over a time period of 11 years from adolescence to adulthood using a subset of data from the nationally representative, multi-year, longitudinal data source, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Results revealed that, in general, those that drink heavily with greater frequency are more likely to have a greater number of depressive symptoms. Conversely, those with more early depressive symptoms are more likely to be early heavy drinkers, but less likely to be heavy drinkers six years down the road. Additionally, early depressive symptoms affect later trajectories in binge drinking. Gender, racial/ethnic group, and college attendance all affected the relationship over time for heavy drinking and were generally related to the average but not the change over time of depressive symptoms. Results are discussed in the context of Elder's life course theory that views developmental trajectories in relation to social pathways.