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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2012 Dec 1;23(1):33–45. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2012.10.015

Table 1.

Participant characteristics. Table 1.A displays characteristics of participants involved in the comparison analysis (section 1). This section included 35 children with ADHD combined type (ADHD-C) and 64 control children. Table 1.B displays characteristics of participants involved in the correlation analysis (section 2), which included 52 children with ADHD and 70 children without ADHD.

A. Comparison Analysis - Section 1

Variable Controls
ADHD-C
p
Mean SD Mean SD
Age 9.21 1.20 9.57 1.47 0.19
IQ 116.91 12.82 109.24 14.93 0.01 *
Movement (RMS) 0.41 0.32 0.43 0.34 0.81
Frame-to-frame displacement (FD) 0.28 0.22 0.30 0.25 0.63
ln(k) −3.87 1.94 −2.87 2.59 0.07 **

N % N %

Gender
Male 39 60.94 27 77.14
Female 25 39.06 8 22.86
B. Correlation Analysis - Section 2

Variable Controls
ADHD
p
Mean SD Mean SD
Age 9.00 1.21 9.63 1.35 0.01 *
IQ 117 13.08 110.80 15.51 0.02 *
Movement (RMS) 0.40 0.33 0.47 0.32 0.27
Frame-to-frame displacement (FD) 0.27 0.23 0.32 0.21 0.22
ln(k) −3.77 2.06 −2.97 2.83 0.09 ***

N % N %

Gender
Male 34 48.57 38 73.08
Female 36 51.43 14 26.92
ADHD subtype
Combined - - 30 57.69
Inattentive - - 21 40.38
Hyperactive - - 1 1.92

SD, standard deviation; IQ, Full-Scale IQ; ln(k), natural log of the discounting gradient (k).

*

indicates p value < 0.05;

**

p value = 0.027, when adjusting for age;

***

p value = 0.015, when adjusting for age.