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Table 3 Differences in outcome between the PD-Lo and the PD-Hi patients at treatment termination (week 20) and three-month follow-up (week 32)

From: The influence of depressive symptoms on the effectiveness of a short-term group form of Schema Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for personality disorders: a naturalistic study

 

week 20

week 32

Outcome measure

EMD (SE)

p

EMD (SE)

p

SCL scales

anxiety

−0.61 (0,93)

.51

−1.78 (1.02)

.08

phobic anxiety

−1.24 (0.54)

.02

− 1.21 (0.59)

.04

depression

−5.12 (1.98)

.01

−7.44 (2.09)

.00*

somatisation

−0.86 (0.93)

.36

−1.02 (1.03)

.32

insufficiency

0.44 (0.84)

.60

−0.66 (0.91)

.47

interpersonal sensitivity

−1.10 (1.45)

.45

−3.53 (1.57)

.03

hostility

0.61 (0.48)

.21

0.03 (0.53)

.96

sleep problems

0.16 (0.39)

.69

−0.38 (0.43)

.44

other

−0.67 (0.64)

.29

−2.76 (0.69)

.00*

General Symptom Inventory

−12.09 (6.64)

.07

−23.61 (7.17)

.00*

YSQ domains

 schema severity

0.02 (0.08)

.81

0.03 (0.09)

.72

disconnection-rejection

0.05 (0.08)

.54

0.003 (0.10)

.98

impaired autonomy

−0.48 (0.08)

.56

−0.0002 (0.09)

.99

impaired limits

0.10 (0.07)

.19

0.12 (0.08)

.14

other directedness

0.12 (0.10)

.19

0.10 (0.10)

.34

overvigilance and inhibition

−0.01 (0.08)

.95

−0.04 (0.09)

.66

UCL scales

active coping

0.49 (0.42)

.25

0.74 (0.47)

.11

avoidance

0.26 (0.47)

.59

0.57 (0.52)

.27

palliative reaction pattern

−0.26 (0.52)

.96

0.77 (0.58)

.18

seeking social support

0.25 (0.44)

.57

0.35 (0.48)

.47

  1. PD-Lo Personality Disorder with low severity of depressive symptoms; PD-Hi Personality Disorder with high severity of depressive symptoms; SCL Symptom Checklist; YSQ Young Schema Questionnaire; UCL Utrecht Coping List; EMD Estimated Mean Difference; SE Standard Error. The minus sign(−) before the EMD score means that the PD-HI improves more than the PD-Lo patient group. *p < .01