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. 2023 Aug 4;23:827. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09856-z

Table 5.

Number needed to treat at different definitions of clinical change and follow-ups

Condition
Clinically meaningful improvement Follow-up Control Shamiri Number needed to treata
Standard GAD-7 Termination 30% 19% 9.1* b
7-month 21% 18% 33.3*
RCSC GAD-7 Termination 49% 58% 11.1*
7-month 42% 54% 8.3b
Standard PHQ-8 Termination 17% 11% 16.7*
7-month 11% 13% 50
RCSC PHQ-8 Termination 39% 48% 11.1
7-month 29% 43% 7.1 b

aThe number needed to treat is the number of students who would have to receive Shamiri for one additional participant to have the specified outcome. When the incidence for the control condition is greater than Shamiri, it produces the number of people who would have to receive Shamiri to not have the specified outcome. These situations are represented with an asterisk. Numbers with a b were significant in a majority of the 7 imputed datasets