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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol Rev. 2009 May 1;4(1):22–41. doi: 10.1080/17437190903384291

Table 2.

Quality of Life Effect Size.

Study N Intervention Group N Control Group N Total Effect Sizes
Treatment - Control Analysisa Pre-Post Analysisa
Group-format Interventions
Cadmus, 2009 (YES) 37 37 74 0.39 0.07
Campbell et al., 2005 10 9 19 2.37 0.74
Herrero et al., 2006 8 8 16 1.71
Kolden et al., 2002 40 n/a 40 0.36
Mutrie et al., 2007 82 92 174 0.24 0.27
Ohira et al., 2006 39 40 79 0.35 0.26
Pinto et al., 2003 12 6 18 0.6 0.36
Sandel et al., 2005 19 16 35 0.53 0.9
Schulz et al., 1998 28 n/a 28 0.61
Segal, et al., 2001 32 34 66 0 0
Turner et al., 2004 10 n/a 10 0.51
Individual-format Interventions
Cadmus, 2009 (IMPACT) 25 25 50 0.09 0.23
Courneya et al., 2003 24 26 52 1.7 0.49
Hughes et al., 2008 25 n/a 25 0.32
Kramer, 1996 13 n/a 13 1.02
McKenzie & Kalda, 2003 7 7 14 0
Pinto et al., 2005 39 43 82 0.33 0.15
Schwartz, 1999 27 n/a 27 -0.43
 Total/ Mean 477 343 822 0.56 95% CI (.25, .87) 0.31 95% CI (.19, .43)
a

adjusted for small sample bias.