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Table 1 Variables included in the study

From: How has our primary-care NHS-IAPT provision for PTSD adapted to the pandemic? A service evaluation of recovery pre-COVID-19 and peri-COVID-19

Variable

Description

Value

Recovery

PHQ-9 and PCL-5 below clinical cut-off

Recovered vs. unrecovered

Referral source

Source of referral

Self vs. professional referred

Wait to treatment

Difference between date of triage to date of first treatment session

Number of days

Number of episodes

Number of new episodes

Number of treatment starts with at least 2 sessions

Baseline symptom severity

Scores on symptom measures at first session

Score on PHQ-9 (range 10–27) and PCL-5 (range 32–80)

Number of sessions

Number of attended clinical contacts

Number of outcomed sessions

Treatment modality

Treatment intervention delivered

Trauma-focused CBT vs. EMDR

Attendance rate

Attendance to offered treatment sessions

Number of sessions cancelled or non-attended appointments (cancelled by client, cancelled by service, did not attend)

Interpreters

English or facilitated session in another language

Interpreter vs. non-interpreter session

Demographics

Sociodemographic client descriptors

Gender (male, female); Age (16–24, 25–39, 40–64, 65+); Ethnicity (white British, African, Bangladeshi, Any other white)