Depression and Psychological Trauma: An Overview Integrating Current Research and Specific Evidence of Studies in the Treatment of Depression in Public Mental Health Services in Chile

Table 3

Symptoms changes over time among 87 severe depressive women with childhood trauma, 44 of them assigned to protocolized interpersonal model of trauma (IMT) versus 43 who received usual treatment. Curicó, Chile [78].

Outcome measures and groups	Admission		Discharge		6 months follow up
	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)
Hamilton^1
Protocol group	34.09	6.2	22.1	8.8*	19.4	8.8**
Control group	34.42	6.7	27.5	9.7	25.0	11.1
OQ45 total^2
Protocol group	112.73	19.7	92.7	28.3*	85.8	37.6*
Control group	114.72	22.5	105.4	31.0	102	31.7
OQ45 symptoms^3
Protocol group	71.07	12.2	59.1	18.4	53.5	22.8*
Control group	73.37	13.6	65.6	17.0	63.4	18.9
OQ45 Interpers. Rel.^4
Protocol group	24.5	6.6	19.0	7.7	18.7	10.2
Control group	23.1	6.9	22.6	11.1	21.6	8.7
OQ45 social^5
Protocol group	17.4	5.5	14.5	6.8	13.5	8.2*
Control group	18.3	6.7	17.1	7.9	16.8	7.1
Posttraumatic symptoms scale (PTO-8)^6
Protocol group	16.6	7.6	12.6	7.8	11.7	7.9
Control group	19.1	8.4	14.9	8.1	15.0	7.8

1Hamilton: scores between 0 to 63 points with higher scores indicating a greater severity of symptoms.
²OQ45 global scale: scores between 0 to 180 points with higher scores indicating worse function.
³OQ45 symptomatic scale: scores between 0 to 100 points with higher scores indicating a greater severity of symptoms.
⁴OQ45 interpersonal scale: scores 0 to 44 points with higher scores indicating worse function.
⁵OQ45 social role scale: scores between 0 to 36 points with higher scores indicating worse function.
⁶PTO 8 scale: scores between 0 to 32 points with higher scores indicating a greater severity of symptoms.
^∗<0.005, ^∗∗<0.001.