Table 3.
Mean Scores for Treatment Completers: Cognitive-Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Minimal Attention (MA) Groups
| Pretreatment |
Posttreatment |
3 months |
9 months |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measure and group | n | M | SD | n | M | SD | n | M | SD | n | M | SD |
| CAPS | ||||||||||||
| CPT | 41 | 73.71 | 18.47 | 41 | 20.66 | 15.60 | 37 | 26.78 | 20.03 | 26 | 29.27 | 23.56 |
| PE | 40 | 76.43 | 19.11 | 40 | 25.40 | 23.54 | 37 | 34.27 | 26.89 | 26 | 24.12 | 18.78 |
| MA | 40 | 69.88 | 19.91 | 40 | 69.73 | 19.19 | ||||||
| BDI | ||||||||||||
| CPT | 40 | 23.43 | 10.30 | 39 | 6.82 | 5.68 | 37 | 7.86 | 7.77 | 23 | 9.57 | 8.75 |
| PE | 40 | 23.90 | 9.15 | 38 | 11.42 | 9.90 | 34 | 13.23 | 11.36 | 24 | 9.21 | 6.32 |
| MA | 38 | 23.50 | 8.31 | 37 | 22.30 | 9.09 | ||||||
| PSS | ||||||||||||
| CPT | 41 | 29.22 | 8.72 | 40 | 8.30 | 6.00 | 36 | 9.75 | 9.04 | 24 | 9.53 | 9.28 |
| PE | 40 | 29.93 | 8.84 | 40 | 11.80 | 9.87 | 34 | 12.72 | 10.98 | 26 | 10.23 | 9.12 |
| MA | 39 | 28.94 | 7.47 | 39 | 27.95 | 8.41 | ||||||
| Global guilt | ||||||||||||
| CPT | 41 | 2.37 | 1.16 | 36 | 0.85 | 0.68 | 24 | 0.66 | 0.63 | |||
| PE | 40 | 2.52 | 1.11 | 37 | 1.20 | 0.84 | 26 | 1.06 | 0.89 | |||
| MA | 13 | 2.69 | 0.72 | 37 | 2.35 | 0.97 | ||||||
| Hindsight bias | ||||||||||||
| CPT | 40 | 1.88 | 1.10 | 35 | 0.34 | 0.57 | 23 | 0.39 | 0.43 | |||
| PE | 38 | 2.12 | 1.18 | 35 | 1.02 | 0.85 | 25 | 0.90 | 0.78 | |||
| MA | 13 | 2.03 | 0.99 | 36 | 1.95 | 1.04 | ||||||
| Lack of justification | ||||||||||||
| CPT | 39 | 2.56 | 1.07 | 35 | 1.08 | 0.91 | 25 | 1.40 | 1.05 | |||
| PE | 39 | 2.61 | 1.04 | 34 | 2.01 | 0.98 | 25 | 1.98 | 1.07 | |||
| MA | 12 | 2.79 | 0.62 | 34 | 2.68 | 1.01 | ||||||
| Wrongdoing | ||||||||||||
| CPT | 40 | 1.55 | 1.04 | 35 | 0.70 | 0.84 | 25 | 0.56 | 0.68 | |||
| PE | 38 | 1.89 | 0.82 | 35 | 1.17 | 0.84 | 25 | 0.82 | 0.67 | |||
| MA | 12 | 2.55 | 0.92 | 34 | 1.86 | 1.07 | ||||||
Note. CAPS = Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale; BDI = Beck Depression Inventory; PSS = PTSD Symptom Scale; PTSD = posttraumatic stress disorder.