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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 Oct;48(10):3367–3376. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3598-6

Table 2.

Distributions of concern and diagnosis information, n = 538

Early diagnosis (< 3 years) Later diagnosis (≥ 3 years)
n = 106 n = 432
Age at first concern (months)
 Mean (standard deviation) 18.1 (7.15) 34.8 (20.25)
 Median 17.0 36.0
 First quartile, third quartile 12.0, 24.0 24.0, 48.0
 Range (1.0–32.0) (0.0–96.0)
Number of concerns
 Mean (standard deviation) 5.8 (3.31) 4.8 (2.93)
 Median 6.0 4.0
 First quartile, third quartile 3.0, 8.0 3.0, 7.0
 Range (0.0, 13.0) (0.0, 13.0)
Concern-to-diagnosis interval (months)
 Mean (standard deviation) 7.9 (6.80) 28.3 (23.10)
 Median 7 24
 First quartile, third quartile 2.0, 12.0 12.0, 43.0
 Range (0.0–24.0) (0.0–92.0)
Time since diagnosis (years)
 Mean (standard deviation) 10.1 (2.52) 7.1 (3.12)
 Median 9.7 7
 First quartile, third quartile 8.0, 12.2 5.0, 9.0
 Range (6.1–16.0) (0.4–15.0)