Table 1: Mean (standard deviations) for overall symptoms (SCL-90 R), depression and anxiety in pre, post and follow-up treatment, as well as the percentage (%) of improvement between pre-test and follow-up, and effect size (d) comparing the pre-test and the follow-up, for the Yes SMS and No SMS groups.

Yes SMS No SMS
    Pre Post Follow     % d Pre Post Follow     % d
Symptom
Number
87.87
(54.01)
57.6
(35.10)
57.92
(39.42)
34.08 0.64 99.8
(43.15)
66.57
(39.15)
70.2
(43.98)
29.66 0.68
Depression
(BDI)
15.67
   (8.91)
10.65
(5.84)
11.36
(6.86)
  27.50 0.55   15.67
  (7.70)
11.72
(7.89)
12.1
(8.08)
  22.78 0.45
Depression
(Hamilton)
  17.69
(4.39)
12.4
(4.48)
  9.88*
(4.25)
44.15 1.81   18.67
  (6.24)
11.92
(5.23)
12.47
(4.92)
33.21 1.11
Anxiety
(Hamilton)
  13.78
  (4.22)
9.24*
(3.54)
8.24**
(3.65)
  40.20 1.41    18.17
   (5.62)
11.07
(4.97)
12.01
(4.65)
  33.90 1.20
Anxiety
(SAS)
  38.56
(9.59)
33.64
(8.23)
34.24
(8.07)
11.20 0.49   42.38
  (7.68)
37.16
(5.88)
38.05
(8.43)
10.22 0.54
Anxiety
(STAI)
  92.12
  (19.68)
84.44
(19.70)
82.97
(15.43)
  9.93 0.52   98.22
(21.43)
88.95
(23.35)
88.37
(20.72)
  10.03 0.47

Legenda Comparison of Yes SMS with No SMS groups using the Mann-Whitney test: *p < .05; ** p < .0001 In bold the boxes with significant differences.