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Table 1 Pre-treatment characteristics in 69 adolescents receiving 28 weeks of psychoanalytical psychotherapy with or without transference work

From: The first experimental study of transference work–in teenagers (FEST–IT): a multicentre, observer- and patient-blind, randomised controlled component study

 

Transference work group (n = 39)

Non-transference work group (n = 30)

Effect sizes

N

%

N

%

Gender

 Female

33

84.6

24

80.0

 

 Male

6

15.4

6

20.0

x2 = .25, p = .62

Housing situation

 Both parents

15

38.5

14

46.6

 

 One parent or commute

between two parents

22

56.4

12

40.0

x2 = 2.5, p = .29

 Other

2

5.1

3

10.0

 

 Missing

1

3.4

 

Diagnostics (M.I.N.I.)

 Recurrent depression

15

38.5

9

30.0

x2 = .139, p = .71

 Suicide risk (moderate to high)

6

15.4

4

13.3

Χ2 = .06, p = .81

 Prevalence of one or more

comorbid diagnoses

18

46.2

16

53.3

x2 = .35, p = .55

 

Mean

(SD)

Mean

(SD)

 

Age

17.30

(0.7)

17.31

(0.7)

t(66) = 0.64, p = .95

Personality diagnostics

 PD criteria as measured with SIDP-IV

13.5

(9.0)

12.4

(7.8)

t(65) = −0,52, p = .60