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Table 3. Bivariate relationships between youth characteristics and medication use.

	Means and Percents

	Any medication (versus none)		Polypharmacy (versus one medication)		Questionable Polypharmacy (versus polypharmacy)
	None	Any med	One med	Polypharm	Polypharm	Questionable
Age (years)	14.1	13.1	13.1	13.3	13.3	13.2
Months in TFC home	14.8^**	25.1	20.5	28.2	24.7	34.3
SDQ Total Score	14.1^**	17.2	15.8^*	18.2	18.2	17.8

Sex (female)	51.0	41.5	46.3	39.5	43.6	32.2
State custody	88.4	81.7	83.3	80.2	80.0	80.6
Maltreatment	62.9	70.4	77.8	65.1	61.8	71.0

p<.05;

^**

p<.01;

^***

p<.001