Course of self-reported symptoms of 342 outpatients receiving medium- versus long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy

Table 3 Distribution of types of treatment (one-on-one versus group therapy) for diagnostic subgroups; total sample (n = 342), and patients receiving medium-term (n = 271) versus patients receiving long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (n = 71)

	Total sample^b		Treatment 1 year		Treatment 2 years
	n = 342		n = 271		n = 71
	n	%	n	%	n	%
One-on-One
Total Sample	256	74.9	207	76.4	49	69.0
Depressive Disorder^a (F32.- to F39)	148	71.2	115	72.3	33	67.3
Anxiety Disorder (F40.- to F41.-)	97	75.8	77	77.0	20	71.4
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (F42.-)	14	32.6	11	36.7	3	23.1
Somatoform Disorder (F45.-)	62	66.0	45	67.2	17	63.0
Eating Disorder (F50.-; E66.-)	57	83.8	42	82.4	15	88.2
Group Therapy
Total Sample	86	25.1	64	23.6	22	31.0
Depressive Disorder (F32.- to F39)	60	28.8	44	27.7	16	32.7
Anxiety Disorder (F40.- to F41.-)	31	24.2	23	23.0	8	28.6
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (F42.-)	29	67.4	19	63.3	10	76.9
Somatoform Disorder (F45.-)	32	34.0	22	32.8	10	37.0
Eating Disorder (F50.-; E66.-)	11	16.2	9	17.6	2	11.8

^aAs patients were frequently diagnosed with more than one clinical diagnosis (ICD-10-GM), the sum of diagnoses is larger than the total sample size because of co-morbidities
^bThe distribution between one-on-one and group therapy did not differ significantly between patients receiving one versus those receiving two years of treatment

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