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Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2015 Jun 2;54(8):635–642. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.05.008

Table 3.

Concurrent Associations Between Different Irritability Groups and Markers of Caseness

	Any Tonic	Any Phasic	Empirical Thresholds for Either Component
			90% Frequency	90% Duration	90% Onset
% of sample (# obs)	27.5% (2148)	51.2% (3485)	7.0% (645)	6.4% (506)	22.9% (1591)
Caseness marker	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Perceived problem	6.3 (4.7–8.6)^***	3.5 (2.4–5.1)^***	5.4 (3.7–7.8)^***	4.3 (2.8–6.7)^***	2.0 (1.5–2.9)^***
Perceived need for help	7.0 (4.9–9.9)^***	3.7 (2.5–5.6)^***	3.9 (2.7–5.9)^***	4.2 (2.6–6.8)^***	2.0 (1.3–2.9)^***
Specialty MH services	2.6 (2.0–3.5)^***	1.9 (1.4–2.6)^***	2.5 (1.5–4.1)^***	2.3 (1.3–4.1)^**	1.6 (1.0–2.5)^*
School services	2.0 (1.6–2.7)^***	2.3 (1.7–3.1)^***	1.5 (1.1–2.2)^**	1.8 (1.2–2.9)^*	1.6 (1.2–2.3)^**
School suspension	1.8 (1.4–2.3)^***	1.7 (1.4–2.2)^***	2.2 (1.5–3.1)^***	1.9 (1.2–3.0)^**	1.8 (1.3–2.5)^**
Parental burden	2.5 (1.9–3.1)^***	1.9 (1.5–2.4)^***	3.1 (2.3–4.4)^***	2.9 (2.0–4.1)^***	1.8 (1.4–2.5)^***
Any impairment	2.2 (1.8–2.7)^***	1.9 (1.6–2.2)^***	2.6 (2.0–3.5)^***	2.0 (1.4–2.8)^***	1.7 (1.3–2.3)^***
Anxiety sx^a^.‡	2.2 (1.9–2.6)^***	1.9 (1.6–2.2)^***	2.0 (1.7–2.3)^***	2.4 (2.0–3.0)^***	1.4 (1.2–1.6)^***
Depression sx^a^.‡	1.8 (1.6–2.0)^***	1.4 (1.2–1.5)^***	1.9 (1.6–2.3)^***	2.2 (1.9–2.5)^***	1.5 (1.2–1.8)^***

Note: MH = mental health; Obs = observations; sx = symptoms.

Ratios for symptoms are mean ratios rather than odds ratios (ORs).

p≤.05;

^**

p≤ .01;

^***

p ≤ .001.