Sam Hobson:
I really do appreciate the multidimensionality that is your perspective and your approach. And so with that said, what did you specifically do within the realm of graduate students and Mood Lifters?
Patricia Deldin:
We had done some randomized control trials and we had done a bunch of pilot testing and we found that it was working as well as therapy. It’s crazy. People were reducing depression, anxiety, stress, and so forth. We had so many people between the business and studies. And so we were seeing that every population was improving.
Sam Hobson:
What did you find?
Patricia Deldin:
Grad students, we found… Well, across the board, in general, we do tons of pre-measures, tons of post measures, and then we look one month and six month after treatment when we’re doing what we call a randomized control trial, which is the gold standard. And what we have found is that across those, and this is a little bit more here, a little bit more there, so don’t quote me on every single group. Okay? So this is in general. We find that it significantly reduces depression and anxiety, and that those effects either improve over time after the program ends, so they get even less anxious and less depressed over time, or it stays the same in the times that we’ve tested it. So Mood Lifters not only in people who are already having symptoms, it reduces it, it also seems to prevent the onset of anxiety, particularly anxiety from graduate students.
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