%0 Journal Article 
%A Pérez de los Cobos, José
%A Alcaraz, Saul
%A Siñol, Núria
%A González Saiz, Francisco Manuel
%A Vergara Moragues, Esperanza
%A Trujols, Joan
%A Buprenorphine/Naloxone Survey
%T Towards a common metric for assessing heroin-dependent patient satisfaction with medications: Testing methadone and buprenorphinenaloxone
%D 2020
%@ 0376-8716
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33109
%X Background: Patient satisfaction with methadone or buprenorphine-naloxone can be multidimensionally and specifically assessed by using, respectively, the Scale to Assess Satisfaction with Medications for Addiction Treatment–Methadone for Heroin addiction (SASMAT-METHER) or the SASMAT–Buprenorphine-Naloxone for Heroin addiction (SASMAT-BUNHER). The factor structures of the SASMAT-METHER and SASMAT-BUNHER show substantial commonalities. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the replicability of the SASMAT-METHER factor structure using data from the SASMAT-BUNHER development study in order to obtain an instrument that can be used to compare patient satisfaction with methadone vs. buprenorphine-naloxone. Method: Secondary analysis of SASMAT-BUNHER data provided by 205 participants in the original validation study of that scale (Pérez de los Cobos et al., 2018). Using the SASMAT-METHER component solution (17 items, 3 factors) as the target structure, a principal component analysis was performed on the data set comprised of the
corresponding 17 SASMAT-BUNHER items using an oblique semi-specified Procrustean rotation. Additionally, Tucker congruence coefficients were computed to examine the correspondence between the two solutions. Result: The factor structures of SASMAT-METHER and the 17-item version of the SASMAT-BUNHER can be considered equal given that the overall Tucker’s congruence coefficient of factorial similarity was 0.972, with individual component congruencies ranging from 0.960 to 0.995.
Conclusions: The SASMAT-METHER component solution can serve as a single common tool to compare
methadone vs. buprenorphine-naloxone in terms of patient satisfaction. This finding supports the feasibility of using a common metric to specifically assess satisfaction with medications to treat heroin dependence.
%K patient satisfaction
%K opioid
%K factor structure
%K replicability
%K methadone
%K buprenorphine-naloxone
%~ Universidad de Cádiz