Table 4.

Comparison of Children Whose Parents Participated in an Adult Drug Treatment Court at Baseline

Variables	Referred to DTC but did not enrolled	Enrolled in DTC but not complete	Completed DTC
Dependent Variables	Mean (std. dev.)	Mean (std. dev.)	Mean (std. dev.)
Math (std. score)	−0.388 (0.874)	−0.440 (0.968)	−0.246c (0.957)
Reading (std. score)	−0.366 (0.929)	−0.402 (0.986)	−0.276 (0.919)
	(%)	(%)	(%)
Absent 18+ days	15.4	15.0	13.4
Covariates	(%)	(%)	(%)
Parent referred to DTC was father	50.7	45.3c	53.4
Parent referred to DTC: Mother	48.4	53.9c	44.8
Both parents in DTC	0.9	0.8	1.8
Child: male	49.2	53.3	47.8
Free or reduced lunch	68.1	70.3	63.5
Free or reduced lunch missing	5.6	6.9	7.1
White non-Hispanic	43.2	41.4	41.5
Black non-Hispanic	52.4	52.1	52.5
Other non-Hispanic	3.9	5.7	4.7
Hispanic	0.5	0.8	1.2
Mother < high school at child’s birth	41.0	39.6	28.2a
No father on birth certificate	14.6	15.8	13.9
No 1st trimester prenatal care	28.0	28.9	24.6
Low or very low birth weight	14.6	11.1	8.9b

Baseline is the school-year (July 1-June 30) of the year the parent was referred to DTC.

Grade binary variables omitted from table.

The number of students varied based on the dependent variable. For the children of parents with referred only sample there were 732 students in the analysis of math, 729 in the analysis of reading, and 930 in the analysis of chronic absenteeism. Corresponding numbers for the enrolled only sample are 387, 383, and 466, respectively, and for the completed only sample 241, 240, and 305, respectively. The number of students in the covariate analysis were 1,022, 505, and 337 in the referred, enrolled and completed sample respectively.

T-tests and tests of proportions were calculated to compare differences between children whose parents were referred but did not enroll with children whose parents :1) enrolled in DTC but did not complete, and 2) completed a DTC program.

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