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. 2023 Aug 17;7:e46326. doi: 10.2196/46326

Table 2.

Rates of remission, improvement, overall improvement, unchanged, deterioration and reliable deterioration for intention-to-treat and treatment completers by treatment condition.


Immediate access group, n (%) Delayed access control group, n (%) Chi-square (df) P value
Intention-to-treat group (n=189; LOCFa) n=94 n=95 29.85 (2) <.001

Remissionb 20 (21) 7 (7)


Reliable improvementc 6 (6) 7 (7)


Minimal improvementd 9 (10) 28 (30)


Unchangede 53 (56) 34 (36)


Minimal deteriorationf 6 (6) 17 (18)


Reliable deteriorationg 0 (0) 2 (2)

Treatment completers (n=110) n=44 n=66 22.82 (2) <.001

Remissionb 20 (50) 7 (101)


Reliable improvementc 6 (14) 7 (11)


Minimal improvementd 9 (21) 28 (42)


Unchangede 3 (7) 5 (8)


Minimal deteriorationf 6 (14) 17 (26)


Reliable deteriorationg 0 (0) 2 (3)

aLOCF: last observation carried forward.

bRemission: proportion of clients who moved into the functional population (positively changed more than the Reliable Change Index=5.66 and gets under the cutoff point for PHQ-9<10).

cReliable improvement: proportion of clients who positively changed more than the Reliable Change Index=5.66 and gets above the cutoff point for PHQ-9<10.

dMinimal improvement: proportion of clients who positively changed less than the Reliable Change Index=5.66.

eUnchanged: proportion of clients who maintained their PHQ-9 score.

fDeterioration: proportion of clients who deteriorated less than the Reliable Change Index=5.66.

gReliable deterioration: proportion of clients who deteriorated more than the Reliable Change Index=5.66.