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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Marital Fam Ther. 2006 Jul;32(3):261–281. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2006.tb01606.x

Table 2.

Means and Standard Deviations of the Treatment Variables for Those Who Did Not Report Abuse (n = 76), Those Who Reported Either Type of Abuse (n = 88) and Those Who Reported Both Types of Abuse (n = 39) in the Family-Therapy-Treated Group (n = 119) and Treatment-as-Usual Group (n = 84)*.

Family-therapy treated group Treatment-as-usual group
No abuse Either type Both types No abuse Either type Both types
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
Treatment factors
 Number of drugs .48 .74 .54 .61 .47 .51 .51 .50 .40 .49 .50 .61
 Number of diagnoses .87 1.26 1.11 1.51 1.61 1.53 1.06 1.13 .64 1.05 2.47 2.34a
 Consequences 5.87 3.64 5.90 4.06 6.47 5.11 5.55 3.73 5.21 3.81 8.27 4.49
 Number of sessions 9.52 6.12 8.59 6.4 8.30 6.94 na na na
Individual factors
 Delinquency 82.17 167.80 197.27 291.66 130.50 175.50 369.80 578.90 539.70 782.10 606.6 732.90b,d
 Externalizing 27.19 10.79 27.82 9.86 28.38 10.61 26.37 7.87 23.73 10.65 31.05 13.09
 Internalizing 17.53 9.49 19.78 10.64 19.38 8.64 18.82 11.03 15.27 10.05 26.11 12.58a
Family factors
 Bonding care 23.78 6.18 20.66 8.27 14.85 9.52 21.58 8.71 21.83 9.42 15.77 8.75a
 Bonding overprotection 21.02 7.52 19.05 10.29 20.28 8.27 15.17 8.05 17.54 8.41 21.88 10.59
 Aggression youth .39 .20 .47 .24 .50 .21 .31 .23 .35 .23 .48 .28b
 Aggression parent .31 .23 .40 .24 .49 .20 .32 .27 .30 .23 .40 .30b
 Violence youth .06 .07 .09 .08 .10 .13 .06 .10 .06 .07 .13 .13a
 Violence parent .06 .09 .15 .12 .18 .17 .06 .10 .09 .13 .17 .14c
 Cohesion 4.91 2.35 3.58 2.3 3.71 2.49 4.65 2.63 4.81 2.64 3.55 2.70c
 Conflict 4.89 2.00 5.90 2.50 5.76 2.75 4.96 2.27 5.00 2.66 5.94 2.73b
*

Listwise deletion for missing data;

a

Both-Types group different than the other two groups (p < 05);

b

Both-Types group different than the No-Abuse group (p < .05);

c

No-Abuse group different than the other two groups (p < .05);

d

Family-Treatment group different than the Treatment-as-Usual group (p < .05).

na = not applicable.