6-month follow-up of rates of clinically significant distress and alcohol use problems of surgical patients with interest in psychotherapy (n = 193) and surgical patients without interest in psychotherapy (n = 964).+

+McNemar’s test; T1: Preoperative baseline assessment; T2: Postoperative 6 months follow-up; n (%); statistical significance of Bonferroni correction: pA case with clinically significant distress was defined as a patient scoring above the cut off score of a given questionnaire (see Table 1 for cut off scores of all measures).++Number ranges for the specific variables from 185 to 191 (patients interested in therapy contacts), and from 907 to 943 (patients not interested in therapy contacts) because of missing data.a)BSI: Brief Symptom Inventory; GSI: General severity index;b)WHO-5: World Health Organization 5-item Well-Being Index;c)PHQ-2: Patient Health Questionnaire-4, depression subscale;d)CES-D: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale;e)GAD-2: Patient Health Questionnaire-4, anxiety subscale;f)AUDIT: Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, AUDIT-C: AUDIT subscore for score for risky alcohol consumption.