Use of cognitive-behavioral career coaching to reduce work anxiety and depression in public employees

Table 4 The results of descriptive analysis indicating the effect of cognitive behavioral career coaching on depression among public employees

		n	Mean	SD	SE	95% confidence interval for mean		η21
						Lower bound	Upper bound
BDI pretest	Treatment group	61	51.88	6.73	0.86	50.15	53.61	0.000
	No-treatment control group	59	51.86	6.88	0.89	50.07	53.65
	Total	120	51.87	6.78	0.61	50.64	53.10	0.810
BDI post-test	Treatment group	61	12.31	8.09	1.03	10.23	14.38
	No-treatment control group	59	46.28	8.50	1.10	44.07	48.50
	Total	120	29.01	18.95	1.73	25.59	32.44	0.840
BDI follow-up	Treatment group	61	11.63	8.82	1.13	9.37	13.90
	No-treatment control group	59	48.49	7.31	0.95	46.58	50.39
	Total	120	29.75	20.19	1.84	26.10	33.40

¹η² = eta squared (effect size).

BDI: Beck depression inventory.