Table 5.
Teachers’ ADHD beliefs: Descriptive statistics and comparative tests.
| Complete sample | Québec sample | Flemish sample | Comparative test | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N valid | Mean (SD) | N valid | Mean (SD) | N valid | Mean (SD) | T-test | |
| ADHDOS—patterns of beliefs | |||||||
| Moral-ethical (ω = 0.69) | 113 | 6.7 (1.8) | 52 | 6.29 (1.8) | 61 | 7.02 (1.8) | (t(111) = −2.14; p = 0.035) |
| Allopathic medical (ω = 0.626) | 113 | 10.0 (1.9) | 52 | 10.9 (1.9) | 61 | 9.18 (1.7) | (t(111) = 5.34; p < 0.001) |
| Sociocultural (ω = 0.535) | 113 | 9.6 (1.9) | 52 | 8.8 (1.7) | 61 | 10.2 (1.9) | (t(111) = −4.03; p < 0.001) |
| Alternative medical (ω = 0.608) | 113 | 8.7 (1.9) | 52 | 8.1 (2.1) | 61 | 9.3 (1.7) | (t(111) = −3.39; p < 0.001) |
| Political/cognitive-style (ω = 0.634) | 113 | 11.6 (2.4) | 52 | 10.2 (2.1) | 61 | 12.7 (2.2) | (t(111) = −5.82; p < 0.001) |
| ADHDOS main category of belief | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | FETI two tailed | |||
| None most important | 113 | 11 (9.6) | 52 | 3 (5.7) | 61 | 8 (13.1) | |
| Allopathic medical | 113 | 43 (37.7) | 52 | 33 (62.3) | 61 | 10 (16.4) | (p < 0.001) |
| Political/cognitive-style | 113 | 25 (21.9) | 52 | 5 (9.4) | 61 | 20 (32.8) | (p = 0.003) |
| Sociocultural | 113 | 24 (21.1) | 52 | 8 (15.1) | 61 | 16 (26.2) | (p = 0.120) |
| Alternative medical | 113 | 10 (8.8) | 52 | 3 (5.7) | 61 | 7 (11.5) | (p = 0.234) |
| Moral-ethical | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Not applicable | ||