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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2013 Aug 1;64(8):754–763. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.002912012

Table 3.

Effectiveness of Family-to-Family program versus waitlist and estimated generalizability for persons declining random assignment in the randomized controlled trial (RCT)

Measure Generalizability estimatea 95% CI Effect size
Knowledge
 RCT 5.28 3.33 to 7.23 .31
 Decliners 4.94 2.09 to 7.79 .29
Problem solving
 RCT −.70 −.99 to −.41 −.23
 Decliners −.56 −1.09 to −.03 −.19
Anxiety
 RCT −1.95 −2.89 to −1.01 −.21
 Decliners −2.00 −3.23 to −.77 −.22
Global Severity Index
 RCT −1.62 −2.53 to −.71 −.18
 Decliners −2.17 −3.56 to −.78 −.24
Family empowerment
 RCT .14 .08 to .20 .23
 Decliners .21 .08 to .34 .35
Service system empowerment
 RCT .23 .15 to .31 .26
 Decliners .35 .19 to .51 .39
Community empowerment
 RCT .26 .19 to .33 .37
 Decliners .40 .28 to .52 .58
Acceptance
 RCT .74 .48 to 1.00 .32
 Decliners .93 .52 to 1.34 .40
Depression
 RCT −1.23 −2.18 to −.28 −.16
 Decliners −1.17 −2.13 to −.21 −.15
Worry
 RCT .04 −.04 to .12 .08
 Decliners −.01 −.11 to .09 −.02
Subjective burden
 RCT −.10 −.09 to .07 −.20
 Decliners .07 −.01 to .15 .13
a

Comparisons were as follows: RCT, estimate from the RCT, excluding decliners (3). For decliners, the estimate is of Family-to-Family recipients versus the waitlist effect for the decliner group.