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. 2024 Jul 23;14:303. doi: 10.1038/s41398-024-03020-9

Table 1.

Demographic information and descriptive statistics.

MAC group (n = 30) iCBT group (n = 30)
Mean (SD) Skew Kurtosis SE Mean (SD) Skew Kurtosis SE
Age 29.31 (7.01) 0.50 −0.89 1.28 29.86 (7.86) 0.76 −0.47 1.44 t = −0.29, p = 0.78
Gender (F/M) (21/9) (17/13) X2 = 0.65, p = 0.42
Baseline PHQ-9 14.63 (3.55) 0.32 −0.39 0.65 13.33 (3.69) −0.14 −0.80 0.67 t = 1.39, p = 0.17
Post Treatment PHQ-9 10.63 (4.60) −0.08 −0.23 0.84 7.13 (5.16) 0.62 −0.49 0.94 t = 2.77, p = 0.01*
Flanker accuracy 0.22 (0.12) 0.47 −0.85 0.02 0.20 (0.14) 0.60 −0.85 0.02 t = 0.77, p = 0.44
Flanker RT 89.84 (15.45) 0.68 −0.38 2.82 86.14 (19.32) 0.91 0.92 3.53 t = 0.82, p = 0.42
Gratton accuracy 0.06 (0.12) −0.50 −0.20 0.02 0.08 (0.06) 0.00 −0.77 0.01 t = −0.62, p = 0.54
Gratton RT −3.71 (21.52) −0.32 1.49 3.93 0.88 (17.07) −0.63 0.88 3.12 t = −0.92, p = 0.36
Post-error accuracy 0.00 (0.04) −0.14 0.23 0.01 -0.01 (0.03) −0.54 0.15 0.01 t = 0.61, p = 0.55
Post-error RT 7.90 (23.46) −0.09 0.09 4.28 6.79 (16.55) −0.58 0.33 3.02 t = 0.21, p = 0.83
dACC-left AI rsFC 0.64 (0.24) −0.47 −0.55 0.04 0.67 (0.18) 0.27 −1.09 0.03 t = −0.41, p = 0.68
dACC-right AI rsFC 0.53 (0.20) −0.26 −0.25 0.04 0.57 (0.21) −0.33 −0.27 0.04 t = −0.83, p = 0.41
dACC-TPJ rsFC 0.11 (0.20) 0.20 −0.13 0.04 0.14 (0.20) 0.80 1.31 0.04 t = −0.51, p = 0.61
Right AI-left AI rsFC 0.64 (0.25) 0.20 −0.24 0.05 0.79 (0.21) −0.61 0.26 0.04 t = −2.50, p = 0.02*
Left AI-TPJ rsFC 0.17 (0.20) 0.09 −0.51 0.04 0.19 (0.20) 0.70 0.20 0.04 t = −0.29, p = 0.77
Right AI-TPJ rsFC 0.39 (0.23) 0.01 −0.79 0.04 0.38 (0.15) −0.65 0.58 0.03 t = 0.15, p = 0.88

MAC monitored attention control, iCBT internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy, SD standard deviation, SE standard error, F female, M male, PHQ-9 patient health questionnaire-9, RT response time, dACC dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, AI anterior insula, rsFC resting state functional connectivity, TPJ temporoparietal junction.

For all t-tests, the degree of freedom is 58; for the Chi-squared test, the degree of freedom is 1. For participant race and ethnicity: across the combined sample, participants reported that they were white (63.3%), Asian (13.3%), Black (5%), more than one race (5%), other (3.3%), unknown (10%); 10% reported Hispanic ethnicity, 31.7% did not provide ethnicity information, and 43.3% reported non-Hispanic ethnicity.