Table 1.

Mean scores and standard deviations for primary and secondary outcomes at baseline, three months' follow up, and follow up at one year

	Before treatment	3 months' follow up	1 year follow up
Intensity of child's behavioural problems—parental report*
Community:
No of cases	68	61	62
Mean (SD) score	175.9 (31.6)	156.5 (41.2)	160.2 (42.7)
Hospital:
No of cases	67	55	56
Mean (SD) score	180.1 (29.4)	157.8 (43.0)	152.8 (40.7)
Intensity of child's behavioural problems—teacher's report*
Community:
No of cases	61	57	65
Mean (SD) score	123.1 (50.2)	114.0 (52.1)	110.5 (45.7)
Hospital:
No of cases	62	49	61
Mean (SD) score	117.8 (47.5)	104.3 (46.2)	111.9 (43.7)
Parental depression†
Community:
No of cases	67	60	61
Mean (SD) score	16.9 (10.5)	10.3 (9.3)	12.1 (10.4)
Hospital:
No of cases	67	53	56
Mean (SD) score	16.6 (9.4)	11.4 (10.3)	9.1 (9.2)
Impact of child's behaviour on family‡
Community:
No of cases	68	60	62
Mean (SD) score	11.5 (5.0)	8.8 (5.5)	9.1 (5.6)
Hospital:
No of cases	66	55	56
Mean (SD) score	12.0 (4.7)	9.7 (5.9)	8.6 (5.8)
Parental criticism of child¶
Community:
No of cases	66	55	59
Mean (SD) No	2.4 (2.2)	2.0 (2.3)	1.8 (2.1)
Hospital:
No of cases	60	52	53
Mean (SD) No	2.1 (2.2)	1.6 (2.4)	1.3 (2.5)
Parental report of parenting problems**
Community:
No of cases	59	61	62
Mean (SD) score	3.8 (0.8)	3.1 (0.9)	3.1 (0.9)
Hospital:
No of cases	54	55	56
Mean (SD) score	3.7 (0.9)	3.3 (0.9)	3.2 (1.0)

SD=standard deviation. 

The table includes all available data, regardless of whether data on a subject were missing at other time points. 

^*Minimum score 36, maximum 252; the higher the score the greater the intensity. 

^†Minimum score 0, maximum 63; the higher the score the greater the intensity. 

^‡Minimum score 0, maximum 22; the higher the score the greater the intensity. 

^¶Number of critical comments about the child during the five minute speech sample. 

^**Minimum score 1, maximum 7; the higher the score, the greater the perceived parenting problems.