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Replication and extension of Marlatt's taxonomy of relapse precipitants: overview of procedures and results
Author(s) -
Lowman Cherry,
Allen John,
Stout Robert L.,
Group The Relapse Research
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1046/j.1360-0443.91.12s1.16.x
Subject(s) - replication (statistics) , replicate , taxonomy (biology) , psychology , relapse prevention , reliability (semiconductor) , predictive validity , clinical psychology , medicine , biology , ecology , statistics , quantum mechanics , power (physics) , physics , mathematics , virology
The Relapse Replication and Extension Project (RREP) was a multisite study to replicate and extend Marlatt's taxonomy of relapse precipitants. In addition to replicating Marlatt's original taxonomic system, three independent research teams utilized prospective designs to identify additional predictors of relapse and developed and evaluated two alternative systems for assessing high risk relapse situations. This overview describes the replication methodology, summarizes seven RREP studies completed by the three research groups, and discusses five cross‐cutting conclusions emerging from the studies. These conclusions are: (1) reliability of Marlatt's taxonomic system was variable both within and across the three research sites; (2) Marlatt's taxonomic system showed little predictive validity in analyses that used pretreatment relapse data to predict post‐treatment relapse, but there are important unresolved issues; (3) an alternative taxonomy provided little more predictive validity than the original taxonomy even though it measured more dimensions of relapse