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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2014 Jun 1;171(6):668–674. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13091213

Table 3.

Associations between disruptive mood dysregulation disorder in childhood and young adult health functioning and risky/illegal behaviors

Noncase controls Psychiat ric controls DMDD cases DMDD cases vs. Noncase controls DMDD cases vs. Psychiatric controls
% % % OR (95%CI) p value OR (95%CI) p value
Health Outcomes
Serious Illness 5.6 7.0 1.3 0.2 (0.1-0.9) 0.04 0.2 (0.0-0.8) 0.03
Serious Accident 13.8 10.8 15.2 1.1 (0.4 -3.0) 0.82 1.5 (0.5-4.3) 0.46
Sexually transmitted disease 4.5 4.4 21.9 5.9 (1.9-18.1) 0.002 6.0 (1.9-19.7) 0.003
Obesity 25.2 35.7 28.2 1.2 (0.5-2.6) 0.71 0.7 (0.3-1.7) 0.43
Any non-substance psychiatric disorder 15.9 33.0 54.1 6.2 (2.7-14.2) <0.001 2.4 (1.0-5.7) 0.04
Regular smoking (>1day) 37.1 57.7 75.0 5.1 (2.2-11.8) <0.001 2.2 (0.9-5.4) 0.08
Self-report of poor health 15.7 26.5 37.6 3.2 (1.3-8.1) 0.01 1.7 (0.6-4.4) 0.30
Self-report of illness contagion 21.7 34.5 45.0 3.0 (1.3-6.9) 0.01 1.6 (0.6-3.8) 0.34
Risky/Illegal behaviors
 Official felony charge 6.1 11.3 20.3 4.0 (1.3-12.1) 0.02 2.0 (0.7-6.1) 0.23
 Police contact 9.5 18.4 30.5 5.9 (2.1-16.5) 0.001 3.7 (1.4-10.3) 0.01
 Lying 3.6 6.4 1.7 0.5 (0.1-2.2) 0.32 0.3 (0.1-1.2) 0.09
 Physical fighting 5.9 8.9 26.8 4.2 (1.5-11.5) 0.005 2.0 (0.7-5.6) 0.21
 Breaking in 1.7 11.2 18.9 13.7 (3.6-52.2) <0.001 1.8 (0.5-6.9) 0.37
 Driving when impaired 6.8 14.2 13.2 2.1 (0.6-7.6) 0.27 0.9 (0.2-3.5) 0.90
 Marijuana use 28.8 44.6 39.0 1.6 (0.7-3.7) 0.29 0.8 (0.3-1.9) 0.61
 Other illicit drug use 8.1 15.9 9.0 1.1 (0.5-2.6) 0.76 0.5 (0.2-1.2) 0.14
 Hooking up with stranger 12.9 18.3 16.3 1.3 (0.5-3.9) 0.61 0.9 (0.3-2.7) 0.81

DMDD= disruptive mood dysregulation disorder; OR = odds ratio; 95%CI=95 percent confidence interval. Bolded ORs significant at p<0.05.