Depression Symptoms Improve after Successful Weight Loss with Emotional Freedom Techniques

Table 2

Post hoc paired comparisons, with Bonferroni adjustment, for repeated measures ANOVAs.

	𝑁	12-month follow-up versus pretreatment		12-month follow-up treatment versus posttreatment		Post- versus pretreatment
		Mean difference	𝑃	Mean difference	𝑃	Mean difference	𝑃
Weight	40	−5.05 kg/11.1 lbs	0.006*	−4.65 kg/10.2 lbs	0.014*	−0.40 kg/0.9 lbs	0.407
BMI	40	−2.28	0.001*	−2.13	0.003*	−0.15	0.406
SA-45GSI	45	−5.47	0.001*	−2.51	0.257	−2.96	0.029*
SA-45PST	45	−4.62	0.013*	−2.16	0.334	−2.47	0.117
SA-45 ANX	19	2.94	0.46	−0.26	0.47	−2.68	0.47
SA-45 DEP	19	6.38	0.001*	−3.52	0.15	−2.84	0.28
SA-45 HOS	19	3.47	0.058	−2.15	0.41	−1.31	0.61
SA-45 INT	19	4.84	0.016*	−1.42	1.00	−3.42	0.10
SA-45 OC	19	3.57	0.25	0.36	1.00	−3.94	0.06
SA-45 PAR	19	3.56	0.19	−0.68	1.00	−2.84	0.13
SA-45 PHO	19	−0.15	1.00	0.78	0.59	−0.63	1.00
SA-45 PSY	19	0.56	1.00	−0.31	1.00	−0.26	1.00
SA-45 SOM	19	0.05	1.00	3.26	0.48	−3.31	0.16

* 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.