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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2012 Mar 7;41(3):337–345. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2012.654464

Table 3.

Descriptive statistics and analysis results for mother measures of primary outcome.

Measure COACHES
Pre-
treatment M
(SD)		 COACHES
Post-
treatment M
(SD)		 WL Pre-
treatment M
(SD)		 WL Post-
treatment M
(SD)		 F (Group ×
Time
interaction) 		p Effect
size
DPICS
   Total Commands 23.64 (13.12) 19.78 (10.70) 22.37 (12.44) 21.86 (11.18) 0.53 .468 .20
   Total Praise 4.28 (3.96) 4.78 (5.90) 4.37 (4.68) 3.81 (2.71) 1.23 .270 .31
   Total NT 7.48 (7.38) 3.26 (3.37) 4.37 (4.09) 6.38 (6.07) 1.69 .197 .36
ECBI
   Problem rating 65.16 (9.15) 59.50 (9.85) 65.54 (9.17) 64.40 (9.46) 1.41 .238 .36
   Intensity rating 64.84 (8.83) 56.75 (8.42) 63.69 (8.70) 61.80 (8.92) 3.11 .081 .53

Notes: COACHES=Coaching Our Acting-Out Children: Heightening Essential Skills. DPICS= Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction System. WL=Waitlist. NT=Negative Talk. N=25 Mothers in the COACHES group and N=27 Mothers in the waitlist group. Means and standard deviations in the table reflect untransformed descriptive statistics. M=Mean. SD=Standard Deviation. Means and standard deviations in the table reflect untransformed descriptive statistics. Effect sizes were calculated using the t-statistic from the assessment point by group parameter estimate.