Findings showed, there was no significant
difference among these two groups in participant
characteristics (Table 2). A mixed linear model, the
conditional model, which includes group and time with
a random intercept and slope, was the best fit (AIC =
1893.166). Results from this study revealed that
there was a significant difference in social functioning
at baseline and over time for all participants in both
group (p< .01) (Table 3, 4) as well as by group
alone (p= .02) (Table 5), while interaction of a time
by group showed a non-significant difference (Table 3).
Participants in the experimental group had a higher
significant improvement in social functioning over
time compared to those in the control group (Table 6)