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. 2000 Oct 28;321(7268):1047–1051. doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7268.1047

Table 2.

Change in scores for primary and secondary outcomes at three month follow up and at one year follow up, compared with baseline scores. Values in parentheses are 95% confidence intervals

No in community group No in hospital group Change in score compared with baseline
Difference between community and hospital groups P value
Community group Hospital group
Intensity of child's behavioural problems—parental report
 At 3 months 58 54 18.8 (11.9 to 25.7) 21.3 (12.9 to 29.7)   2.5 (−13.2 to 8.2) 0.64
At 1 year 60 55 17.4 (10.5 to 24.4) 27.2 (19.3 to 35.1)  −9.8 (−20.2 to 0.6) 0.06
Intensity of child's behaviour—teacher's report
 At 3 months 51 46 13.7 (4.9 to 22.5)   7.4 (−3.1 to 17.8)   6.3 (−7.1 to 19.7) 0.30
At 1 year 57 58 10.7 (1.2 to 20.1)   8.9 (−2.6 to 20.4)    1.8 (−12.9 to 16.6) 0.81
Parental depression
 At 3 months 57 52 5.7 (3.8 to 7.6) 4.1 (1.7 to 6.5)  1.6 (−1.3 to 4.6) 0.28
At 1 year 59 55 4.6 (2.4 to 6.9) 6.2 (4.3 to 8.3) −1.7 (−4.7 to 1.3) 0.28
Impact of child's behaviour on family
 At 3 months 57 53 2.8 (1.5 to 4.1) 1.9 (0.8 to 3.1)  0.9 (−0.8 to 2.6) 0.30
At 1 year 60 55 2.6 (1.3 to 3.9) 3.1 (1.9 to 4.2) −0.5 (−2.2 to 1.2) 0.57
Parental criticism of child
 At 3 months 52 48  0.5 (−0.1 to 1.2)  0.3 (−0.3 to 1.0)  0.2 (−0.7 to 1.1) 0.69
At 1 year 56 50 0.6 (0.0 to 1.3) 0.9 (0.2 to 1.5) −0.2 (−1.1 to 0.7) 0.64
Parental report of parenting problems
 At 3 months 51 43 0.6 (0.4 to 0.9) 0.3 (0.1 to 0.6) 0.3 (0.0 to 0.6) 0.05
At 1 year 54 42 0.7 (0.5 to 0.9) 0.5 (0.3 to 0.8)  0.1 (−0.2 to 0.4) 0.38

For scoring systems see footnote to table 1