The Effect of Interpersonal Counseling for Subthreshold Depression in Undergraduates: An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

Participant characteristics.

	IPC	CAU
Age (years)			.599
Gender
Male	3 (20)	3 (19)
Female	12 (80)	13 (81)	.359
Problems
Interpersonal relationships	8 (53)	7 (44)
Studying	3 (20)	5 (31)
Future career	3 (20)	2 (13)
Other	1 (7)	2 (13)	.865

Note. IPC: interpersonal counseling; CAU: counseling as usual. Continuous variables are expressed as means ± standard deviations. Categorical variables are expressed as frequencies followed by percentages in parentheses. values are derived from Wilcoxon signed-rank test and chi-square tests.