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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Cogn Psychother. 2008 Oct;36(5):509–520. doi: 10.1017/S1352465808004694

Table 1.

Sample characteristics for the treatment as usual (TAU) and cognitive therapy (CT) cohorts

TAU (n=12) CT (n=26) Statistics

Mean
or N
SD
or %
Mean
or N
SD
or%

Sex
 Male 3 25% 5 19% Fisher(1), p = .689
Female 9 75% 21 81%

Age 31.8 9.4 37.1 9.8 T(36) = 1.56, p = .13

Ethnic group
White 9 75% 25 96% Fisher(1), p = .084
 Not white 3 25% 1 4%

Education
 No exam 0 0% 3 12% χ2(2, 38) = 1.68 p =
.434
 GCSE 7 58% 15 58%
 A level or higher 5 42% 8 31%

Employment
 Full 9 75% 10 39% χ2(1, 38) = 4.39, p =
.036 for employed
versus not
 Part-time 2 17% 5 19%
 Unemployed 1 8% 6 23%
 Homemaker 0 0% 5 19%

Marital
 Married 5 42% 13 50% X2(1, 38) = 0.16, p =
.900 for living with
partner versus not
 Cohabiting 4 33% 15 23%
 Divorced 0 0% 8 12%
 Never married 4 25% 4 15%

Agoraphobic
Avoidance (ADIS)
 None 2 17% 1 4% χ2(1, 38) = 2.94, p =
.230
 Mild 4 33% 15 58%
 Moderate 6 50% 10 39%

Previous
treatment
  Yes 6 50% 14 54% χ2(1, 38) = 0.05, p =
.825
  No 6 50% 12 46%

Taking
medication
 Yes 6 50% 6 31% χ2(1, 38) = 1.31, p =
.253
 No 6 50% 18 69%

Number of sessions
to post assessment
7.2 2.5 9.0 3.0 t(36) = 1.88, p = .068

Number of weeks to
post assessment
14.0 4.8 12.9 5.7 t(36) = 0.61, p = .546

Total number of
sessions to follow-
up
7.3 2.5 10.3 3.5 T(36) = 2.63, p = .013

Number of weeks
post to follow-up
22.7 8.3 23.9 3.9 t(30) = 0.31, p = .762