Longitudinal Trajectory of Mood Symptoms
There were no treatment group differences in the percentage of weeks free of mood symptoms (Psychiatric Status Rating Scale scores #2) or the percentage of weeks with acute mood symptoms (Psychiatric Status Rating Scale scores $5) across study years 1 and 2 (Table 2). There were also no main effects of treatment group or treatment group-by-time (year 1, year 2) interactions on percentage of weeks with depressive symptoms. However, adolescents in family-focused therapy showed a greater increase from year 1 to year 2 in proportion of weeks without mania/ hypomania symptoms compared with those in enhanced care (F=4.02, df=1, 87, p=0.048).