Exploratory outcome
ABM, anxiety, depressive symptoms
For exploratory purposes, we investigated if there was an effect of ABM on anxiety, as measured by BAI. Compared to baseline, there was a significant reduction in anxiety from baseline to follow-up Pairwise comparisons of assessment points within groups, showed that in the sham condition, there was a significant reduction from baseline to post-training, For exploratory purposes, we investigated if change in AB (post-intervention AB–baseline AB) was associated with change in depressive symptoms from baseline to post-intervention (post-intervention BDI-II–baseline BDI-II) and six-months follow-up (six-months follow-up BDI-II–baseline BDI-II), respectively. Correlation analyses showed no association between change in AB and change in BDI-II symptoms between either timepoints in either group, or in groups combined, all 