Table 2.

Sample demographic and clinical informationb—child/adolescent information

Variable	Total samples	Neurological diagnosisa
		No	Yes	p valueb
N	1,409	1,090	319
Age (mean, SD; years)	12.3 (3.0)	12.42(3.0)	12.03 (3.9)	0.039
Days missed school in the past month (mean, SD; days)	1.98 (3.2)	1.44 (2.4)	3.90 (4.7)	<0.001
Gender (%)
Male	56.8	53.7	67.4	<0.001
Have received mental health services (%)c
Yes	29.5	21.0	58.3	<0.001
No	70.6	79.0	41.7
Have been diagnosed (%)
ADHD/ADD	26.4	21.4	43.6	<0.001
Depression	16.0	9.6	37.6	<0.001
Anxiety	15.8	9.9	35.7	<0.001
Oppositional defiant disorder	6.0	3.9	13.2	<0.001
Conduct disorder	6.3	3.5	16.0	<0.001
Given medication for attentional difficulties (%)	29.2	21.4	55.8	<0.001
Given medication for other mental health problem (in %)	18.5	10.0	47.6	<0.001
Ever repeated a grade (% yes)	16.3	11.3	32.3	<0.001
Quality of life in general (rated by parents; in %)				<0.001
Poor	0.8	0.4	2.2
Fair	9.9	5.3	25.7
Good	23.0	21.8	27.0
Very good	42.2	45.1	32.6
Excellent	24.1	27.4	12.5
CBCL attentional Problems (in %)
Normal	77.6	85.1	52.4	<0.001
Borderline clinical	10.2	7.5	19.4
Clinical	12.1	7.4	28.2
CBCL social problems (in %)
Normal	72.0	80.1	44.2	<0.001
Borderline clinical	9.2	7.5	15.1
Clinical	18.8	12.4	40.8
CBCL thought problems (in %)
Normal	72.5	77.8	54.2	<0.001
Borderline clinical	4.7	3.5	8.8
Clinical	22.9	18.7	37.0

^aSpecifically, epilepsy (15.0%), traumatic brain injury (3.4%), cerebral palsy (2.6%), and brain tumor (1.6%)

^bSignificance tests between children described as with and without a neurological diagnosis

^cTypes of services include % for all samples who endorsed “received mental services”, those who had neurological conditions” and those who “do not have neurological conditions”, respectively): social services through school (51.6%, 61.8%, 43.2%), clinic/outpatient counseling (50.7%, 60.2%, 79.0%); day hospital, or partial hospitalization (14.0%, 22.6%, 7.0%), hospitalization (15.2%, 21.5%, 10.0%)