Table 5.
Levels of primary outcomes at pretreatment and post-treatment for treatment completers, with mean changes and effect sizes.
| Pretreatment |
Post-treatment |
Change |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NET |
TAU |
NET |
TAU |
NET |
TAU |
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| Outcome | n | M (SD) | n | M (SD) | n | M (SD) | n | M (SD) | n | M (SD) | gav | n | M (SD) | gav |
| Post-traumatic stress symptoms | 22 | 16 | 22 | 16 | 21 | 16 | ||||||||
| Hyperarousal | 13.4 (7.6) | 11.0 (6.5) | 10.3 (7.1) | 9.7 (5.9) | −3.52 (6.45) | 0.46 | −2.00 (5.24) | 0.32 | ||||||
| Intrusions | 12.1 (4.4) | 10.9 (5.2) | 7.5 (5.3) | 8.8 (6.5) | −4.81 (4.26) | 0.97 | −2.63 (5.44) | 0.43 | ||||||
| Avoidance | 12.8 (5.0) | 13.7 (5.8) | 10.5 (6.1) | 13.6 (5.7) | −2.00 (5.86) | 0.35 | +0.31 (5.04) | 0.05 | ||||||
| Total | 38.3 (14.4) | 35.6 (12.2) | 28.2 (15.2) | 32.1 (14.9) | −10.33 (12.70) | 0.68 | −4.31 (12.1) | 0.30 | ||||||
| Depressive symptoms | 18 | 13.1 (9.2) | 12 | 12.8 (5.0) | 14 | 13.0 (8.6) | 11 | 12.1 (6.4) | 13 | −2.08 (6.87) | 0.22 | 11 | −0.91 (3.73) | 0.14 |
| Resilience | 18 | 14.6 (4.9) | 13 | 13.3 (5.2) | 15 | 15.1 (4.1) | 11 | 15.0 (2.5) | 14 | +1.57 (3.61) | 0.32 | 11 | +2.00 (4.27) | 0.43 |
| Psychological distress | ||||||||||||||
| Self-evaluated | 18 | 14.6 (7.2) | 10 | 15.4 (5.7) | 12 | 14.7 (5.8) | 9 | 13.4 (5.2) | 12 | −2.25 (4.69) | 0.33 | 8 | −2.50 (4.63) | 0.39 |
| Guardian-evaluated | 13 | 18.0 (7.4) | 10 | 17.3 (7.3) | 10 | 15.0 (9.1) | 11 | 15.8 (5.3) | 10 | −3.10 (5.80) | 0.33 | 9 | −3.33 (5.68) | 0.50 |
NET, narrative exposure therapy; TAU, treatment as usual; gav, effect size as Hedges’ g using average variance.