A randomised controlled trial of mentalization-based treatment versus structured clinical management for patients with comorbid borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder

Table 3 Changes in mood (anxiety and depression) and general symptom distress (GSI)

	Anxiety (SCL-90)					Depression (BDI)					GSI (SCL-90)
	Unadjusted observed mean (SD)					Unadjusted observed mean (SD)					Unadjusted observed mean (SD)
	MBT (n = 21)		SCM (n = 19)		t	MBT (n = 21)		SCM (n = 19)		t	MBT (n = 21)		SCM (n = 19)		t
Baseline	1.83	(0.91)	2.18	(0.82)	1.30	27.51	(11.42)	30.58	(7.51)	0.99	1.75	(0.74)	2.01	(0.55)	1.25
6 months	1.83	(0.85)	2.28	(0.89)	1.62	24.68	(10.45)	29.00	(8.06)	1.45	1.73	(0.80)	2.03	(0.67)	1.29
12 months	1.59	(1.02)	2.05	(0.80)	1.61	19.19	(11.18)	26.56	(8.71)	2.31**	1.52	(0.87)	2.00	(0.66)	1.91*
18 months	1.00	(0.67)	1.62	(0.75)	2.74**	13.14	(7.25)	21.99	(9.20)	3.39***	0.96	(0.52)	1.57	(0.63)	3.37***
	Adjusted model coefficients (95 % CI)^a					Adjusted model coefficients (95 % CI)					Adjusted model coefficients (95 % CI)
Model: Wald χ²	54.07*** (df = 4)					92.30*** (df = 3)^a					87.16*** (df = 5)^b
Linear change (both groups)	-0.61***		(-0.86, -0.36)			-2.82***		(-4.05, -1.59)			-.060***		(-0.90, -0.29)
Quadratic change (both groups)	-0.14***		(-0.21, -0.07)								-0.18**		(-0.32, -0.05)
Differential linear change (MBT)	-0.08		(-0.24, -0.08)			-2.04*		(-4.74, -0.34)			-0.15		(-0.34, 0.04)
Group differences at 18 months	-0.59*		(-1.07, -0.12)			-8.96***		(-14.27, -3.65)			-0.47**		(-0.79, -0.15)

MBT Mentalization-Based Treatment, SCM Structured Clinical Management, t t-test for independent samples, χ² chi-squared, CI confidence interval, df degrees of freedom
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
^amixed-effects linear regression with random intercept
^bmixed-effects linear regression with random slope

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