Systematic review of digital interventions for reduction in cannabis use
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Introduction: cannabis is one of the most popular drugs worldwide and request for it’s treatment is high. Misusers have reported different obstacles to have access to typical treatments, transport, cost, social stigma, among others. In the public health field there are technological-approach interventions which are relatively easy to implement. Some of these interventions are focus on the reduction of drug misuse, specifically marijuana and it is believed that can reduce the issues reported by their users.
Objective: to update the knowledge regarding to the effectiveness of technological-approach interventions which reduce marijuana misuse through a systematic review.
Method: an specific search was started on October 2017 in the following databases: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PsycINFO and PubMed. The searching interval was 2010-2017.
Results: a total of 1022 papers were identified, from them 26 randomised clinical trials were selected for a posterior analysis in the present work.
Discussion: a half of the analyzed assays report effectiveness of the technological-approach interventions in reducing cannabis use. Some characteristics among them are: Internet is the main way for their use and the motivational interview is the theoretical approach, and also many of them are one session only, although any of these was a constant in the effective interventions.
Conclusions: there are effective technological-approach interventions to reduce marijuana misuse. However, more research is needed to identify the specific characteristics through which these interventions reach their effectiveness, specially related to the particularities of their digital/technological condition.
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