Supervised team management, with or without structured psychotherapy, in heavy users of a mental health service with borderline personality disorder: a two-year follow-up preliminary randomized study

Table 2 T0, T6, T12, T24 comparisons during the first year of the study: self-administered questionnaires.

VARIABLE	Times of observation				GLM*	p<	GLM**	p<
	T0 (17 vs 18)	T3 (17 vs 18)	T6 (16 vs 17)	T12 (16 vs 17)
SCL-90-R tot
STM	130.9 ± 85.2	102.1 ± 71.7	93.3 ± 62.5	93.5 ± 67.2	7.78	.000°	.55	.645
SB-APP	156.6 ± 70.0	137.9 ± 74.4	115.6 ± 72.0	103.1 ± 83.4
S-ANG
STM	17.1 ± 9.0	15.6 ± 7.2	14.2 ± 6.8	13.8 ± 6.5	.40	.747	.87	.458
SB-APP	17.1 ± 8.3	17.7 ± 7.4	16.6 ± 10.4	19.0 ± 12.5
T-ANG
STM	19.9 ± 6.8	19.0 ± 7.3	17.4 ± 7.7	18.8 ± 6.3	.33	.569	.14	.709
SB-APP	22.5 ± 7.9	22.5 ± 6.8	21.9 ± 8.8	22.4 ± 8.8
AX-IN
STM	19.5 ± 4.4	18.8 ± 6.4	18.6 ± 5.0	18.7 ± 5.6	1.24	.298	.35	.785
SB-APP	20.5 ± 4.2	20.2 ± 5.5	18.7 ± 2.9	18.8 ± 3.1
AX-OUT
STM	16.0 ± 6.2	16.9 ± 5.3	15.7 ± 4.3	15.3 ± 4.4	1.19	.317	.33	.803
SB-APP	17.0 ± 4.9	16.4 ± 2.9	16.1 ± 3.7	15.4 ± 4.5
AX-CON
STM	20.9 ± 5.9	19.7 ± 5.5	22.2 ± 6.6	23.8 ± 6.6	6.44	.001°	1.33	.269
SB-APP	19.5 ± 6.0	22.4 ± 3.6	23.4 ± 5.8	25.1 ± 4.2
AX-EX
STM	29.3 ± 13.2	31.9 ± 14.1	28.8 ± 12.7	31.3 ± 9.5	1.01	.391	1.41	.245
SB-APP	33.8 ± 10.7	32.3 ± 9.1	29.8 ± 11.1	27.9 ± 10.4

SCL-90-R Tot = Symptom Checklist 90 - Revised, Total score; S-ANG = state-anger; T-ANG = trait anger; AX-IN = anger expressed inwards; AX-OUT = anger expressed outwards; AX-CON = anger control; AX-EX = anger expression; * = changes within individuals; ** = differences between treatment groups. ° post-hoc: SCL-90-R Tot = T6, T12 < T0; AX-CON = T6 > T0.
STM = Supervised Team Management group; SB-APP = Sequential Brief Adlerian Psychodynamic Psychotherapy group
df = 3

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