Because of those percentages, for statistical power we dichotomized our sample into white patients/patients of color, with clear caveats about the limitations regarding generalizability, applicability to different populations, etc.
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Replicating previous work, we did *not* find significant differences in the slopes of change in anxiety 😬 or depression 😔 between white patients & patients of color, although the group differences in anxiety change were nearly significant: B = .27, SE = .15, p = .08. 👀
Where we *did* find differences were in changes specifically in task agreement (from the working alliance inventory) 🤝 and skillfulness 🛠️, with white patients reporting steeper improvements in both than patients of color across the first 6 sessions.
Now, racial/ethnic identity did *not* moderate the within-person relations between task agreement/skillfulness and session-to-session symptom change (maybe a power issue, maybe a true null).
We think these results suggest that people with different racial/ethnic backgrounds use different processes of change in the UP, at least with primarily white therapists.
If we want folks to use skills, we may need to modify how we delivery them to make them more relevant.
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If we want folks to use skills, we may need to modify how we delivery them to make them more relevant.
Preprint here! And coming out in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/42kzj_v4