Table 3.
Daily repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) craving score for each participant
| Group | Participant number | Self-reported alcohol craving1 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment | Placebo | ||||||||||
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0 |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 1 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Placebo | Treatment | ||||||||||
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | ||
| 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
1Daily craving before rTMS was assessed on a scale of 1 (not at all) to 10 (the most ever) to the question: ‘Please rate how strong your alcohol craving is right now by circling a number on the 10-point scale’