Is cognitive behaviour therapy applicable to individuals diagnosed with bipolar depression or suboptimal mood stabilizer treatment: a secondary analysis of a large pragmatic effectiveness trial

International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

Table 3 Time to any relapse and time to depressive relapse

	N patients	Relapse		CBT vs TAU^a
	N patients	N (%) events	Median time in weeks (inter-quartile range)	CBT vs TAU^a
Any relapse
TAU	20	15 (75%)	20.3 (5.45–34.78)	X² = 11.37 df 6
CBT	19	10 (53%)	35.7 (11.47–58.53)	p = 0.07
1st depressive relapse
TAU	20	12 (60%)	21.5 (8.45–39.6)	X² = 14.23 df 6
CBT	19	7 (37%)	42.2 (25.2)^b	p = 0.027

^aCo-variates are listed in methods
^bFull inter-quartile range cannot be shown as < 50% CBT cases experienced a depressive relapse