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. 👀 - ThreadSky

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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. 👀

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mattsouthward.bsky.social•74 days ago

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.

mattsouthward.bsky.social•74 days ago

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).

mattsouthward.bsky.social•74 days ago

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.

mattsouthward.bsky.social•74 days ago

Or we may need to explore what processes of change work best for people from different backgrounds...

Preprint here! And coming out in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/42kzj_v4

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