Search for dissertations about: "Nitya Jayaram-lindström"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Nitya Jayaram-lindström.
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1. Evaluation of Naltrexone as a treatment for amphetamine dependence
Abstract : Amphetamine addiction is a disease that affects millions of people worldwide and lacks effective treatment. An estimated 35 million persons are reported to abuse amphetamines, which is more than the total number of cocaine and heroin abusers combined. READ MORE
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2. Understanding Opioid Therapy in Chronic Pain : Assessment, Lived Experience and Conceptions
Abstract : The overarching aim of this thesis was to improve the understandings of opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) by examining the feasibility of different assessment methods of substance use, and opioid use disorder (OUD), and exploring the sense-making of opioid therapy in CNCP. Methods: In study I, the reliability of the Addiction Severity Index Self-Report form (ASI-SR) was assessed by the agreement (intraclass correlation (ICC)) between the composite scores (CS) of the ASI interview and the ASI-SR, internal consistency of the CS subscales measured with Cronbach’s α, and sensitivity and specificity of the alcohol and drug CS’s, using Receiver Operating Characteristics analyses. READ MORE