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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2012 Sep 8;36(9):666–670. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.07.006

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Cortisol Values by Day and Group (μg/dl)

Week before school 1st day of school 5th day of school
RFC MTFC-P CC RFC MTFC-P CC RFC MTFC-P CC
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
Morning 0.41 0.19 0.60 0.30 0.46 0.17 0.53 0.32 0.58 0.26 0.48 0.23 0.70 0.49 0.47 0.30 0.46 0.30
Afternoon 0.10 0.04 0.12 0.07 0.10 0.07 0.12 0.12 0.09 0.07 0.09 0.07 0.14 0.18 0.10 0.05 0.13 0.12
Evening 0.11 0.11 0.08 0.12 0.09 0.10 0.07 0.07 0.03 0.01 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.01 0.03 0.01 0.07 0.11

Note. RFC = regular foster care; MTFC-P = Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Preschoolers; CC = community comparison.

Values for the week before school are the average values from 2 consecutive days.