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Table 2.

Characteristics of additional interventions and psychotropic co-medication among stimulant-treated children diagnosed with ADHD-only, ADHD with PDD, ADHD with ODD/CD and ADHD with other psychiatric co-morbidity

	ADHD-only		ADHD + co-morbidity						χ ² test
	n = 350		ADHD + PDD (n = 53)		ADHD + ODD/CD (n = 50)		ADHD + other co-morbidity (n = 57)		χ ² test
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	P
Psychosocial interventions
Child-focused interventions—any	189	54^b	41	77^a	37	74^a	42	74^a	<0.001
Non-intensive training	108	31	13	25	17	34	18	32	0.27
Physiotherapy	62	18	16	30	10	20	18	32	0.12
Diet	15	4	6	11	1	2	1	2	–
Intensive training	27	8^b	17	32^a	14	28^a	4	7^b	<0.001
Day treatment	22	6^b	16	30^a	11	22^a	7	12^ab	<0.001
Inpatient treatment	11	3^b	9	17^a	11	22^a	3	5^ab	<0.001
Parent-focused interventions—any	223	64^c	47	89^a	42	84^ab	36	63^bc	<0.001
Individual parent training	193	55^b	41	77^a	40	80^a	34	60^ab	<0.01
Group based parent training	29	8	9	17	7	14	1	2	–
Home training	28	8^b	12	23^a	5	10^ab	4	7^ab	<0.01
Other training/course	26	7	5	9	6	12	8	14	0.10
Psychotropic co-medication
Any	63	18^b	19	36^a	14	28^ab	10	18^ab	0.012
Melatonin	41	12	7	13	8	16	4	7	0.49
Antipsychotics	11	3^b	9	17^a	5	10^ab	5	9^ab	<0.001
Clonidine	7	2	2	4	0	0	0	0	–
Antiepileptics	3	1	2	4	1	2	1	2	–
Antidepressants	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	–
Hypnotics/anxiolytics	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–

Proportions that share the same superscript are not significantly different from each other

– Denotes Chi-square not valid due to small numbers