Table 1.

Within-group changes over 6 months in depression, tension, and total mood disturbance scores, and BMI (n = 57)

	Baseline		Month 6		T	db
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Depression3	3.07	2.26	2.62	1.91	2.03*	0.20
Tension3	4.16	3.93	2.49	2.10	3.71*	0.42
Total mood	14.28	15.20	5.22	11.28	4.39*	0.60
disturbance3
BMI	43.75	2.89	42.47	3.99	3.45*	0.44

^aDepression, tension, and total mood disturbance are scales of the Profile of Mood States Short Form.

^bd denotes Cohen’s measure of effect size. Degrees of freedom = 56.

^*p < 0.05 (1-tailed; adjusted for multiple tests using the sequential Bonferroni procedure).