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An Open Uncontrolled Pilot Trial of Online Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia for Ukrainian Alcohol-Dependent Patients

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Heavy drinking patterns among adults are common in Ukraine (Webb et al. in Alcohol Alcohol 40(4):327, 2005). According to the WHO Global Information System on Alcohol and Health, the total recorded and unrecorded alcohol per capita consumption among adults (15+) in Ukraine was 14.3 (in liters of pure alcohol) in 2003–2005 which decreased to 13.9 in 2008–2010, with spirits being the main beverage group (48 % of all the alcohol) followed by beer (40 %) and wine (9 %). The 12-month prevalence of alcohol use disorders (including alcohol dependence and harmful use of alcohol) and alcohol dependence estimates (15+) among males were 9.3 and 4.2 % and females 1.1 and 0.5 %, respectively (WHO 2014). The same report found that the highest patterns of drinking score, i.e., the most risky patters of drinking, have been found in Russia and Ukraine.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported in part by the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center, through funding from the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Olena Zhabenko, Nataliya Zhabenko, Kirk J. Brower, and Robert A. Zucker designed the study and wrote the protocol. Alexander Mazur designed the Web site. Olena Zhabenko, Nataliya Zhabenko, Oleg Chaban, Anna Oliinyk, Iryna Frankova, Alexander Mazur, Deirdre A. Conroy, Kirk J. Brower, and Robert A. Zucker conducted literature review, directed the statistical analyses, and wrote presented article. All authors contributed to and approved the final manuscript.

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  1. Bogomolets National Medical University, 8a Kotsubinskiy Str., Kyiv, 01030, Ukraine

    Oleg Chaban & Iryna Frankova

  2. Department of Psychoneurology, Railway Clinical Hospital #1, Station Kyiv, 8a Kotsubinskiy Str., Kyiv, 01030, Ukraine

    Olena Zhabenko, Oleg Chaban & Anna Oliinyk

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry, State Establishment “The Lugansk State Medical University”, 50 Rokiv Oborony Luganska 1, Lugansk, 91045, Ukraine

    Nataliya Zhabenko

  4. Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Research Center, University of Michigan, 4250 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2700, USA

    Deirdre A. Conroy, Kirk J. Brower & Robert A. Zucker

  5. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, 3640 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C7, Canada

    Alexander Mazur

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Zhabenko, O. et al. (2016). An Open Uncontrolled Pilot Trial of Online Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia for Ukrainian Alcohol-Dependent Patients. In: Andrade, A., De Micheli, D. (eds) Innovations in the Treatment of Substance Addiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43172-7_10

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