Table 3.
Means and SDs of OCD, anxiety and depressive scores before and after rTMS treatment based on the response (responders vs nonresponders) and protocol (SMA rTMS vs DLPFC rTMS)
| Measure | Response | pre-intervention | post-intervention | Pre vs post | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | t (sig) | M (SD) | t (sig) | t (sig) | ||
| Y-BOCS | responders | 22.90 (6.94) | −0.32 (0.75) | 12.73 (6.01) | −5.38 (0.01) | 12.39 (0.001) |
| non-responders | 22.62 (6.50) | 21.02 (5.97) | 2.35 (0.025) | |||
| total | 22.75 (6.66) | 17.20 (7.25) | 7.43 (0.001) | |||
| SMA rTMS | 23.52 (7.37) | 1.11 (0.27) | 18.13 (7.95) | 1.23 (0.22) | 3.06 (0.003) | |
| DLPFC rTMS | 21.66 (5.44) | 15.88 (6.04) | 3.69 (0.001) | |||
| BAI | responders | 27.00 (9.72) | 0.60 (0.54) | 15.13 (7.51) | −0.71 (0.47) | 5.84 (0.001) |
| non-responders | 24.97 (12.06) | 18.37 (10.65) | 2.95 (0.005) | |||
| total | 25.91 (11.01) | 16.87 (9.41) | 5.83 (0.001) | |||
| SMA rTMS | 24.71 (10.15) | −1.04 (0.30) | 16.94 (9.95) | 0.07 (0.94) | 3.36 (0.001) | |
| DLPFC rTMS | 27.59 (12.10) | 16.77 (8.77) | 3.76 (0.001) | |||
| BDI-II | responders | 22.50 (9.78) | −0.20 (0.84) | 16.43 (9.93) | −0.12 (0.91) | 3.17 (0.003) |
| non-responders | 22.77 (8.32) | 17.28 (9.16) | 3.25 (0.002) | |||
| total | 22.64 (8.95) | 16.89 (9.46) | 4.57 (0.001) | |||
| SMA rTMS | 21.84 (9.86) | −0.85 (0.39) | 16.07 (9.28) | −82 (0.41) | 2.62 (0.010) | |
| DLPFC rTMS | 23.77 (7.54) | 18.03 (9.77) | 2.42 (0.019) | |||
Y-BOCS Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, BAI Beck Anxiety Inventory, BDI-II Beck Depression Inventory, M Mean, SD Standard Deviation. Significant results are highlighted (p ≤ 0.05) in bold