DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b2rbnzspt
title: Therapeutic working alliance in brief therapy with college students: In-person versus telemental health

description: This study compared the therapeutic working alliance in brief counseling
 using two delivery methods: synchronous video delivery and in-person
 delivery. The alliance was measured using the Working Alliance Inventory
 (client version). Participants were 49 undergraduate college students
 between the ages of 18 and 22. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy was the
 treatment protocol, and the study used a randomized, controlled design.
 Welch’s t-tests and non-inferiority analyses were conducted, in addition
 to hierarchical regression analyses to examine the predictive value of the
 working alliance on post-treatment anxiety. Non-inferiority statistical
 analyses indicated that there was no statistically significant difference
 in working alliance for online delivery compared to in-person. A
 hierarchical regression anaIysis suggests that the therapeutic working
 alliance contributed to anxiety treatment outcomes for college student
 participants.
description: Dataset was collected through pre and post Working Alliance
 Inventory assessments, as well as Beck's Anxiety Inventory
 assessments, in Qualtrics. Data was exported to SPSS where Welch's
 t-tests and non-inferiority analyses were conducted, as well as
 hierarchical regression analyses.Dataset was managed and accessible to
 authors only.
description: \# Therapeutic Working Alliance in Brief Therapy with College Students:
 In-Person versus Telemental Health
 [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b2rbnzspt](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b2rbnzspt)   This dataset includes responses of participants on the Beck’s Anxiety Inventory BEFORE the intervention, AFTER the intervention (3 solution-focused brief therapy counseling sessions) and at 3-week follow-up after end of the study. It also includes the results of the Working Alliance Inventory after one counseling session and after the final, 3rd counseling session. In addition, the delivery of counseling (whether in-person TAU or telemental health-experimental) is indicated. Finally, we looked at scores on the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS) re: anxiety. This allowed us to compare both the working alliance between in-person and telemental health and also the efficacy (changes in Beck’s anxiety scores) using t-tests and regression analyses.    ## Description of the data and file structure  Each participant’s responses to all queries is in an individual row on the dataset. The columns are the following: Start Date/End Date    This indicates when the participant first answered the questions. IP Address                    IP address of participant. Duration in secs          Duration of engagement in answering. Date                            when it was recorded and added to SPSS dataset Response ID            Given by SPSS Names, etc.            No names or e-mails were requested per anonymous Data. Location Lat/Long      Qualtrics assigned Distribution           Anonymous Language               English Q1                     Participant IDs assigned by primary investigator Q2 1-21                Pre-test answers on Beck’s Anxiety Inventory PQ2 1-21               Post-test (after 3rd counseling session) BAI answers FQ2 1-21               Follow-up answers (after 3 weeks) on BAI WQ2 1-36               Participants’ answers on the Working Alliance Inventory  (WAI) after Session 1 WPQ2 1-36              Answers on the WAI after Session 3 (final session)  Next section of cols is adjusting for reverse scoring on WAI. Delivery method        1 is in-person, 2 is online. Demographics           Gender, age, race, year in college, ever been to counseling before. CCAPS                  Pre & post scores on Generalized Anxiety & Social Anxiety Subscales. Completion             Next few cols indicate completion of the BAI. WAI Total              Total scores on WAI for all part after 1 session Clinician              Which of 2 clinicians saw the client WAI Total post         WAI total after 3rd session WAI Chg                Change between 1st & 3rd session Next columns           Recoded BAI items to 0-3 for pre, post, & follow-up for ease of data analysis.  BAI Composite          Composite scores for BAI pre, post & follow-up RCI Scores             This is a change score used in the CCAPs and evaluated with GAD & SAD. GAD/SAD Chg            Listed the amount of change for GAD & SAD scores on CCAPS BAI Chg                List amount of change in BAI between the three times it was given.  ## Sharing/Access information  This is a section for linking to other ways to access the data, and for linking to sources the data is derived from, if any.  Data was derived from the following sources: Qualtrics surveys of Beck’s Anxiety Inventory and Working Alliance Inventory Titanium paperwork from university counseling center including the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms checklist (CCAPS)  ## Code/Software  SPSS 25.0 was used for all analysis.