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T2
Compared with baseline, the proportion of participants
reporting normal mood statistically significantly in-
creased in both the intervention and control groups at
6 months. In contrast to our hypothesis, this study fai-
led to demonstrate that a dialogue-based intervention
promoted psychosocial well-being in the intervention
group compared with the control group.
Main findings
DISCUSSION
Thirty-seven participants (22.3%) in the intervention
group and 36 (23.1%) in the control group reported
depression at 6 months (Yale). Compared with those
at T1, the intervention group had 8 more participants
(4.9%) who reported depression, while the control
group had 7 fewer participants (5.4%) who reported
depression.
After controlling for the baseline characteristics, the
logistic regression model for depression (Yale) showed
no benefit of the intervention over usual care at T2 (OR:
1.248, 95% CI: 0.64–2.41, p = 0.507).
By separately exploring the results for the interven-
tion and control groups, it was found that depression
at T1 statistically significantly increased the odds
of depression at T2 for both the intervention (OR:
5.054 95% CI: 1.73–14.74, p = 0.003) and the control
group (OR: 8.965 95% CI: 2.79–28.72, p = 0.001) at
6 months.
Table II shows that the physical domain score on the
SAQOL-39g changed significantly from T1 to T2 for
both the intervention and control groups.
After controlling for the baseline characteristics in
the multiple linear regression model, the analysis sho-
wed no benefit favouring the intervention over usual
care on the SAQOL-39g mean score (B = –0.026, CI:
–0.13–0.08, p = 0.637) at 6 months. Table II lists the
subdomain statistics.
When the intervention and control group results
were explored separately, it was found that the T1
SAQOL-39g score was a predictor of the T2 SAQOL-
39g score in both the intervention (B = 0.380, CI:
0.08–0.67, p = 0.015) and control group (B = 0.464, CI:
0.29–0.63, p < 0.001) at T2. For the intervention group,
the NIHSS scoring predicted the T2 SAQOL-39g score
(B =–0.030, CI: –0.51 ao –0.01, p < 0.004) and for the
control group, the SOC-13 (B =0.013, CI: 0.01–0.02,
p < 0.034) predicted the SAQOL-39g score.
Table II shows that the mean sum score on the SOC-
13 did not change significantly from T1 to T2 in the in-
tervention or control group, and that the between-group
difference at 6 months was not statistically significant.
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