Depression Symptoms Improve after Successful Weight Loss with Emotional Freedom Techniques

Table 1

Means, standard deviations at pretreatment, posttreatment, and at 12-month follow-up for collapsed groups.

	𝑁	Pretreatment		Posttreatment		12-month follow-up		df	𝐹	𝑃
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Weight*	40	92.25 kg/203 lbs	18.73	91.85 kg/202.1 lbs	18.88	87.20 kg/191.8 lbs	18.28	[1.04, 40.70]	9.81	0.003*
BMI*	40	33.00	6.60	32.85	6.83	30.73	6.56	[1.04, 40.57]	13.73	0.001*
SA-45GSI*	45	59.20	9.7	56.24	7.7	53.73	9.6	[2, 88]	8.93	<0.001*
SA-45PST*	45	58.56	9.54	56.09	8.34	53.93	10.52	[2, 88]	5.88	0.004*
SA-45 ANX	19	59.26	10.01	56.57	9.17	56.31	7.18	[2, 36]	1.46	0.24
SA-45 DEP*	19	61.42	7.88	58.57	7.42	55.05	6.72	[2, 36]	8.21	0.001*
SA-45 HOS*	19	60.21	6.62	58.89	6.34	56.73	4.12	[2, 36]	3.91	0.02*
SA-45 INT*	19	60.00	6.78	56.57	6.88	55.15	7.05	[2, 36]	5.46	0.008*
SA-45 OC	19	59.31	9.55	55.36	9.32	55.73	9.61	[2, 36]	2.93	0.066
SA-45 PAR	19	58.21	8.48	55.36	8.34	54.68	6.71	[2, 36]	2.31	0.114
SA-45 PHO	19	59.89	4.04	59.26	2.99	60.05	3.01	[2, 36]	0.66	0.56
SA-45 PSY	19	61.89	4.51	61.63	4.07	61.31	3.81	[2, 36]	0.28	0.75
SA-45 SOM	19	58.10	7.10	54.78	7.27	58.05	8.92	[2, 36]	1.58	0.22

* 𝑃<.0.05.
BMI: Body Mass Index.
SA-45GSI: Symptom Assessment Global Severity Index;
SA-45PST: Symptom Assessment Positive Symptom Index;
SA-45 ANX: Symptom Assessment Anxiety;
SA-45 DEP: Symptom Assessment Depression;
SA-45 HOS: Symptom Assessment Hostility;
SA-45 INT: Symptom Assessment Interpersonal Sensitivity;
SA-45 OC: Symptom Assessment Obsessive Compulsive;
SA-45 PAR: Symptom Assessment Paranoid Ideation;
SA-45 PHO: Symptom Assessment Phobic Anxiety;
SA-45 PSY: Symptom Assessment Psychoticism;
SA-45 SOM: Symptom Assessment Somatization.