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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2016 Nov 28;44(1):103–112. doi: 10.1080/00952990.2016.1249283

Table 4.

Results from moderated mediation analyses to examine whether baseline depression severity moderates the degree to which changes in depression mediate the effect of AA attendance on alcohol use outcomes at late follow-up (12, 18, 24 months; Fig. 2; Analysis 7, 8).

PDA late with baseline depression severity moderator variable (n=194) Coeff SE t p
Path A (to BDI 18 months)
  BDI mod 6.227 3.108 2.004 0.047
  BDI mod × AA 12 months −15.811 7.644 −2.068 0.040
Path A (to PDA 18 months)
  BDI mod −0.403 0.124 −3.242 0.001
  BDI mod × AA 12 months 0.712 0.284 2.507 0.013
Path B (to PDA 24 months)
  BDI mod 0.080 0.227 0.351 0.726
  BDI mod ×BDI 18 months 0.001 0.006 0.209 0.835
  BDI mod × PDA 18 months −0.055 0.139 −0.396 0.692

Coeff Boot SE Boot LLCI Boot ULCI

Indirect effect (BDI 18 months is mediator); minimal/mild sepression 0.001 0.042 −0.036 0.065
Indirect effect (BDI 18 months is mediator); moderate/severe depression −0.009 0.067 −0.139 0.135
Indirect effect (PDA 18 months is mediator); minimal/mild depression 0.073 0.157 −0.254 0.346
Indirect effect (PDA 18 months is mediator); moderate/severe depression 0.570 0.129 0.326 0.844
Index of moderated mediation (BDI 18 months is mediator) −0.009 0.072 −0.155 0.132
Index of moderated mediation (PDA 18 months is mediator) 0.497 0.204 0.137 0.922

DPDD late with baseline depression severity moderator variable (n=183) Coeff SE t p

Path A (to BDI 18 months)
  BDI mod 6.157 3.115 1.977 0.050
  BDI mod ×AA 12 months −15.868 7.628 2.080 0.039
Path A (to DPDD 18 months)
  BDI mod 0.447 0.475 0.942 0.602
  BDI mod × AA 12 months −0.169 1.680 −0.101 0.920
Path B (to DPDD 24 months)
  BDI mod 0.667 0.606 1.100 0.273
  BDI mod × BDI 18 months 0.014 0.029 0.476 0.635
  BDI mod × DPDD 18 months 0.117 0.192 0.610 0.542

Coeff Boot SE Boot LLCI Boot ULCI

Indirect effect (BDI 18 months is mediator); minimal/mild depression −0.0042 0.119 −0.412 0.172
Indirect effect (BDI 18 months is mediator); moderate/severe depression 0.129 0.238 −0.266 0.687
Indirect effect (DPDD 18 months is mediator); minimal/mild depression −1.094 0.758 −2.806 0.156
Indirect effect (DPDD 18 months is mediator); moderate/severe depression −1.028 0.945 −2.954 0.487
Index of moderated mediation (BDI 18 months is mediator) 0.133 0.262 −0.301 0.733
Index of moderated mediation (DPDD 18 months is mediator) 0.066 1.180 −2.282 2.389

BDI mod = Categorical BDI moderator variable, DPDD = drinks per drinking day, BDI = beck depression inventory, AA = AA attendance, Coeff = coefficient, SE = standard error, LLCI = lower level of confidence interval, ULCI = upper level of confidence interval; none of the paths for the analysis using percent days abstinent as the outcome were significant so these results are not reported in a table.

There were no significant interaction terms nor were the indices of moderated mediation significant for PDA or DPDD at early follow-up (Analyses 3,4) and so no table was created.