Exploring effectiveness of CBT in obese patients with binge eating disorder: personality functioning is associated with clinically significant change

Table 2 Pretreatment and post-treatment means (SD) for outcome groups based on the EDE-Q global score

Notes: EDE-Q, Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire; BMI, body mass index; p = p value. Hedges’s g_av effect size: 0.20 = small; 0.50 = medium; 0.8 = large [67]. Analyses excluding deteriorated patients (n = 3) result in equal results in terms of significance. Given occurrences of positive skewness of distributions of difference scores for the above three outcome variables (skewness/SE > 1.96), Wilcoxon tests were computed to confirm all parametric results. Non-parametric test statistics resulted in p-values of comparable size as reported above, with the exception of a clearly smaller p-value for differences in the EDE-Q binge eating frequency in the unchanged/deteriorated group, with z = 2.63, p = .008

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