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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: Specialists providing gain-framed counseling used gain-framed statements statistically significantly more frequently than those providing standard-care counseling as assessed with frequency ratings for the two types of gain-framed statements, achieving benefits and avoiding negative consequences (for achieving benefits, gain-framed mean frequency rating = 3. 9 vs standard-care mean frequency rating = 1. 4 ; mean difference = -2. 5 ; 95 % confidence interval [CI] = -2. 8 to -2. 3 ; P <. 001 ; for avoiding negative consequences, gain-framed mean frequency rating = 1. 5 vs standard-card mean frequency rating = 1. 0 ; mean difference = -0. 5 ; 95 % CI = -0. 6 to -0. 3 ; P <. 001).