Resource | Short-term psychodynamic Psychotherapy (SPP) | Solution-focused Therapy (SFT) | Difference of means (SPP-SFT) | 95% confidence intervals for mean cost differencesa | |||
Mean | 10% - 90% quantiles (max) | Mean | 10% - 90% quantiles (max) | ||||
Study therapy | 1297 | 920 - 1644 (1874) | 1779 | 564 - 2255 (2818) | −482 | −652, −323 | |
(number of visits) | |||||||
Other psychotherapy | 2790 | 0 - 11 972 (28 723) | 2448 | 0 - 8447 (36 621) | +342 | −792, +1762 | |
(number of visits) | (32.9) [n = 98] | (28.1) [n = 89] | |||||
Psychiatric outpatient careb | 873 | 0 - 2339 (9639) | 598 | 0 - 1838 (6968) | +275 | −88, +573 | |
(number of visits) | (8.8) [n = 80] | (5.6) [n = 73] | |||||
Psychotropic medication | 368 | 0 - 1090 (3540) | 373 | 0 - 1405 (4228) | −5 | −193, +182 | |
(number of psychotropic medication days) | |||||||
Psychiatric hospitalisation | 368 | 0 - 0 (20 995) | 0 | 0 - 0 (0) | +368 | +32, +920 | |
(number of hospital days) | (1.5) [n = 99] | (0) [n = 96] | |||||
Travel to psychotherapyc | 99 | 0 - 290 (803) | 108 | 0 - 237 (3652) | −9 | −104, +61 | |
[n = 89] | |||||||
Total direct costsd | 4867 | 1268 - 13,559 (30,937) | 4838 | 1800 - 11,238 (21,982) | +29 | −1344, +1213 | |
[n = 79] | [n = 72] | ||||||