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. 2020 Apr 29;22(4):e15587. doi: 10.2196/15587

Table 3.

Predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms clinically significant improvement and treatment adherence (N=475).

Variable PTSDa symptoms improvement Treatment dose 8+ weeks

ORb (95% CI) P value OR (95% CI) P value
Demographics

Age>35 years 0.79 (0.49-1.26) .32 0.91 (0.45-1.90) .80

Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher 0.99 (0.64-1.54) .97 2.13 (1.13-4.03) .02

Gender - female 1.31 (0.73-2.36) .37 0.69 (0.26-1.69) .44

First therapy experience 2.03 (1.18-3.54) .01 0.96 (0.44-2.23) .92
Treatment characteristics

Working alliance 1.03 (1.01-1.05) .02 1.07 (1.03-1.10) <.001

Duration of treatment (weeks) 1.07 (0.98-1.17) .13 N/Ac N/A

Latent class: acute/moderate improvement 5.19 (2.83-10.0) <.001 1.68 (0.72-3.92) .23

Latent class: survey noncompletion 0.38 (0.20-0.69) .002 0.58 (0.25-1.34) .20

Therapist: years of experience (10+) 1.44 (0.92-2.27) .11 0.68 (0.35-1.36) .27

Therapist: PTSD expertise 0.76 (0.51-1.14) .19 0.84 (0.44-1.55) .57
Patient weekly engagement

Number of messages 1.00 (0.98-1.01) .64 1.08 (1.04-1.13) <.001

Text messages: number of words 1.00 (1.00-1.00) .67 1.00 (1.00-1.00) .07

Audio messages: duration (min) 1.00 (1.00-1.00) .52 1.00 (1.00-1.01) .11

Photo messages: count 0.83 (0.65-1.03) .11 1.22 (0.82-2.14) .40

Video messages: duration (min) 1.02 (1.01-1.05) .03 1.01 (0.99-1.04) .47
Therapist weekly engagement

Number of messages 1.01 (0.97-1.05) .55 0.88 (0.82-0.94) <.001

Text messages: number of words 1.00 (1.00-1.00) .52 1.00 (1.00-1.00) <.001

Audio messages: duration (min) 1.00 (1.00-1.00) .92 1.00 (0.99-1.00) .15

Photo messages: count 1.17 (0.74-1.99) .51 1.43 (0.82-3.18) .28

Video messages: duration (min) 0.98 (0.95-1.00) .05 0.99 (0.96-1.02) .43

aPTSD: posttraumatic stress disorder.

bOR: odds ratio.

cN/A: not applicable.