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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2025 Dec 17;181:108719. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108719

Table 1.

Characteristics of focus group participants (N [%] or M [SD])

Reunified adolescents (younger) (n=19) Reunified adolescents (older) (n=22) Young adults (n=29)
Sex
 Female 6 (32%) 13 (59%) 13 (45%)
 Male 13 (68%) 9 (41%) 16 (55%)
Age 12.8 (1.8) 15.0 (1.2) 23.4 (3.6)
Age entering residential care 7.5 (3.3) 10.0 (3.1) 9.5 (3.0)
Age exiting residential care 11.5 (2.1) 14.1 (1.6) 18.6 (1.7)
Years in residential care 4.0 (3.3) 4.1 (3.8) 9.1 (3.3)