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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2014 Sep;44(9):2117–2126. doi: 10.1007/s10803-014-2063-4

Table 4.

Psychosocial Functioning & Treatment History of Clinically Referred Populations of Youth with ASD

ASD
Clinic
Referred
ASD Youth
(N=143)		 Psychiatry
Clinic
Referred
ASD Youth
(N=217)		 Test Statistic p-value Holm’s
Adjusted
Alpha
Psychosocial Functioning
GAF
Lifetime 45.6 ±5.5 42.6 ±6.7 t(356)=4.37 <0.001 0.012
Current 49.8 ±5.5 46.5 ±6.7 t(356)=4.89 <0.001 0.01
School Functioning
Repeated grade 31 (22) 25 (12) 2(1)=7.12 0.008 0.017
Extra tutoring 95 (67) 145 (67) 2(1)=0.0003 0.99 0.05
Special class 84 (59) 124 (57) 2(1)=0.09 0.76 0.025
Treatment History
Only Counseling 55 (38) 45 (21) 2(1)=13.49 <0.001 0.012
Only Pharmacotherapy 1 (1) 3 (1) 2(1)=0.37 0.54 0.05
Counseling + Pharmacotherapy 84 (59) 160 (74) 2(1)=8.87 0.003 0.017
Hospitalization 16 (11) 43 (20) 2(1)=4.68 0.03 0.025

Values expressed as N (%) or Mean ±Standard Deviation

Versus ASD clinic referred youth *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001