Table 3.
Change in anxiety and depressive symptoms from baseline. Rates of members with a reduction in symptom severity from baseline to their last assessment and the change in t-score from baseline to the last full assessment are reported for each group.
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Anxiety, n/N (%) | 130/158 (82.3) | 53/59 (89.8) | 1.33 | .25 | |||||||||
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Depressive, n/N (%) | 80/94 (85) | 37/41 (90) | 0.28 | .59 | |||||||||
| Delta t-score (baseline to last full assessment) | ||||||||||||||
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Anxietyc | –0.35d | .73 | |||||||||||
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Median (IQR) | –5.0 (–9 to 0) | –5.0 (–8 to –2.5) |
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Participants, n | 116 | 51 |
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Depressivee | 0.19f | .84 | |||||||||||
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Mean (SD) | –3.65 (7.70) | –4.00 (7.35) |
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Participants, n | 55 | 26 |
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aPTS: posttraumatic stress.
bBetween-group comparisons were performed with chi-square tests, unless otherwise specified.
cBetween-group comparisons performed with a 2-tailed Wilcoxon signed rank test.
dz value for Wilcox signed rank test.
eBetween-group comparison were performed with a 2-tailed t test.
ft value for t test.