The Pave Project Report - Queen's University Belfast

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Thirty-six percent of participants (n=27) in the baseline assessment used massage.
Figures 126-128 show GHQ-30, BDI-II, and PDS mean scores for participants who
used massage during the 3-4 months prior to each assessment and for those who did
not use this service. Four bars at each assessment point represent data as previously in
Figure 77.
Figure 126: GHQ-30 mean scores for massage users (4 assessments)
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• significant differences between A1 and A4 for those who had not availed of massage.
There were statistically significant improvements with regard to depression between
A1 and A2 for those who availed of massage, however, there also were statistically
significant improvements with regard to depression between A1 and A2, and between