Table 5. 6-month follow-up of rates of clinically significant distress and alcohol use problems of surgical patients with interest in psychotherapy (n = 193) and surgical patients without interest in psychotherapy (n = 964).+ .
| Patients with interest in therapy contacts n = 194++ | Patients without interest in therapy contacts n = 966++ | |||||
| T1 | T2 | Time | T1 | T2 | Time | |
| n (%) | n (%) | P | n (%) | n (%) | P | |
| General psychological distress | ||||||
| BSI GSI, severity of psychological distressa) | 88 (46.8) | 83 (44.1) | .576 | 98 (10.5) | 135 (14.4) | .001 |
| Depression | ||||||
| WHO-5b) | 123 (64.4) | 111 (58.1) | .162 | 302 (32.1) | 291 (30.9) | .505 |
| PHQ-2c) | 82 (43.4) | 64 (33.9) | .041 | 131 (14.1) | 141 (15.2) | .490 |
| CES-Dd) | 71 (38.4) | 65 (35.1) | .497 | 86 (9.4) | 116 (12.6) | .005 |
| BSI depression a) | 73 (38.2) | 72 (37.7) | 1.00 | 88 (9.4) | 121 (12.9) | .001 |
| Anxiety | ||||||
| GAD-2e) | 71 (38.0) | 52 (27.8) | .018 | 106 (11.6) | 80 (8.8) | .018 |
| BSI anxiety a) | 71 (37.4) | 49 (25.8) | .005 | 83 (8.8) | 75 (8.0) | .475 |
| BSI interpersonal sensitivitya) | 53 (27.7) | 56 (29.3) | .761 | 54 (5.8) | 64 (6.8) | .268 |
| BSI phobic anxietya) | 58 (30.7) | 47 (24.9) | .108 | 69 (7.3) | 88 (9.3) | .040 |
| Alcohol problems | ||||||
| AUDIT sum score: Alcohol abuse/dependencef) | 35 (18.6) | 35 (18.6) | 1.00 | 83 (8.9) | 86 (9.3) | .810 |
| AUDIT-C: Risky alcohol consumptionf) | 49 (26.3) | 43 (23.1) | .362 | 164 (18.1) | 148 (16.3) | .137 |
McNemar’s test; T1: Preoperative baseline assessment; T2: Postoperative 6 months follow-up; n (%); statistical significance of Bonferroni correction: p<0.0045.
A case with clinically significant distress was defined as a patient scoring above the cut off score of a given questionnaire (see Table 1 for cut off scores of all measures).
Number ranges for the specific variables from 185 to 191 (patients interested in therapy contacts), and from 907 to 943 (patients not interested in therapy contacts) because of missing data.
BSI: Brief Symptom Inventory; GSI: General severity index;
WHO-5: World Health Organization 5-item Well-Being Index;
PHQ-2: Patient Health Questionnaire-4, depression subscale;
CES-D: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale;
GAD-2: Patient Health Questionnaire-4, anxiety subscale;
AUDIT: Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, AUDIT-C: AUDIT subscore for score for risky alcohol consumption.