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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2009 Apr 30;33(8):1417–1429. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.00972.x

Table 2.

ASR Internalizing and Externalizing Scores at 3 Years by Individual and Treatment Characteristics (n = 296)

ASR Internalizing score
ASR Externalizing score
Mean SD Correlation coefficient p value Mean SD Correlation coefficient p value
Demographics
Gender
 Boys 11.9 10.3 0.0393 16.5 11.5 0.0164
 Girls 14.8 12.2 13.4 9.9
Age −0.0015 NS −0.0849 NS
Race/ethnicity
 African American 13.6 10.0 NS 16.9 10.2 NS
 Native American 12.6 13.0 13.3 10.0
 Hispanic 14.7 11.6 15.1 10.1
 Asian 14.3 12.0 18.8 12.9
 White 12.1 10.8 15.0 11.6
Baseline MH severity
YSR Internalizing score 0.4312 <0.0001 0.1577 0.0069
YSR Externalizing score 0.1694 0.0036 0.2782 <0.0001
Substance use problems at baseline
Number of abuse/dependence symptoms 0.1681 0.0038 0.0727 NS
Short-term outcomes at 1 year
Abstinence
 Yes 10.4 8.1 <0.0001 12.8 9.5 <0.0001
 No 15.4 12.8 17.7 11.8
Anxious/depressed scale 0.5447 <0.0001 0.3583 <0.0001
Externalizing scale 0.2621 <0.0001 0.4735 <0.0001
CD treatment
Index treatment facility
 Site 1 11.3 9.6 NS 16.0 11.0 NS
 Site 2 14.1 12.6 16.0 11.9
 Site 3 12.5 9.1 14.9 9.4
 Site 4 13.0 11.6 14.8 11.5
Index treatment length of stay −0.0512 NS 0.0523 NS
Any CD visit within the health plan in
 Second year
  Yes 14.9 11.9 NS 19.4 13.3 0.0277
  No 12.7 10.9 14.6 10.5
 Third year
  Yes 12.7 8.7 NS 17.4 11.7 NS
  No 13.0 11.3 15.1 10.9
Any CD visit outside the health plan in
 Second and third year
  Yes 11.5 10.4 NS 17.5 11.7 0.0277
  No 13.3 11.2 15.0 10.9
Psychiatric services
Any psychiatric treatment within the health plan in the
 First year
  Yes 14.9 12.1 0.0107 15.6 11.5 NS
  No 11.6 10.1 15.2 10.7
 Second year
  Yes 17.6 13.1 0.0003 18.0 12.1 0.0150
  No 11.4 9.8 14.4 10.5
 Third year
  Yes 16.1 11.1 0.0278 17.8 11.1 0.0841
  No 12.4 11.0 14.8 11.0
Any psychiatric treatment outside the health plan in the
 Second and third year
  Yes 20.4 14.6 0.0037 21.4 12.4 0.0010
  No 12.1 10.3 14.6 10.6
Twelve-step participation
 Attending 10 or more meetings in prior 6 months at 1 year
  Yes 13.3 11.0 NS 17.2 12.3 0.0880
  No 12.9 11.2 14.7 10.5
 Attending 10 or more meetings in prior 6 months at 3 years
  Yes 16.1 14.1 NS 19.0 12.9 0.0427
  No 12.6 10.6 14.8 10.7

Notes: p values are from t-tests or ANOVA tests for comparisons of ASR scores by individual or treatment characteristics, and correlation tests of ASR scores and continuous individual or treatment characteristics. ASR, Adult Self-Report; NS, not significant; CD, chemical dependency; MH, mental health; YSR, Youth Self-Report.