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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Ther. 2015 Jun 18;46(6):786–796. doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2015.06.002

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of presence, frequency, intensity, and severity of individual tics.

Tic Present (%; n/N) Frequency M(SD) Intensity M(SD) Severity M(SD)
Motor
Eye Blinking 72% (87/121) 2.9 (1.1) 2.2 (1.0) 5.0 (1.8)
Eye rolling/darting 31% (38/121) 2.8(1.2) 2.2 (1.1) 5.0 (2.0)
Head Jerk 67% (81/121) 2.9 (0.9) 2.6 (1.0) 5.5 (1.8)
Facial Grimace 55% (66/120) 2.6 (0.9) 2.3 (0.9) 4.9 (1.4)
Mouth/Tongue Movements 55% (58/120) 2.8 (1.0) 2.1 (1.0) 4.8 (1.8)
Shoulder Shrugs 56% (68/121) 2.6 (0.9) 2.3 (0.9) 4.9 (1.4)
Chest/stomach tightening 37% (45/121) 2.3 (0.9) 2.3 (1.2) 4.6 (1.8)
Pelvic Tensing Movements 17% (20/121) 2.4 (0.9) 1.9 (0.9) 4.2 (1.5)
Leg/Feet Movements 50% (60/121) 2.5 (0.9) 2.0 (1.0) 4.5 (1.7)
Arm/Hand Movements 61% (74/121) 2.8 (1.0) 2.3 (1.0) 5.1 (1.7)
Echopraxia (copying another’s gestures) 8% (10/121) 2.1 (1.0) 2.0 (1.0) 4.1 (1.7)
Copropraxia (obscene gestures) 4% (5/121) 2.8 (0.8) 2.4 (1.1) 5.2 (1.1)
Other Motor Tics 32% (36/112) 3.0 (0.9) 2.6 (0.9) 5.5 (1.7)
Complex Motor Combinations (multiple tics at once) 47% (54/114) 2.7 (0.9) 2.8 (0.9) 5.4 (1.7)
Total Motor Tics M(SD) 5.8 (2.8)1 2.7 (0.7) 2.3 (0.7) 29.6 (15.6)
Vocal
Grunting 31% (38/121) 2.3 (0.9) 2.0 (1.0) 4.3 (1.6)
Sniffing 42% (50/120) 2.7 (1.0) 2.0 (1.0) 4.6 (1.8)
Snorting 12% (14/120) 2.6 (1.1) 2.2 (1.0) 4.8 (1.7)
Coughing 23% (27/120) 2.4 (0.9) 2.0 (0.9) 4.4 (1.6)
Animal Noises 8% (10/120) 2.4 (1.0) 2.5 (1.1) 4.9 (1.9)
Syllables 10% (12/120) 2.5 (0.8) 2.2 (0.7) 4.7 (1.2)
Words 15% (18/119) 2.3 (0.9) 2.3 (0.9) 4.6 (1.5)
Phrases 11% (13/119) 2.5 (1.1) 2.2 (0.8) 4.7 (1.4)
Echolalia (repeating vocalizations of others) 12% (14/120) 2.0 (0.8) 2.2 (1.0) 4.2 (1.4)
Coprolalia (obscene words) 7% (8/120) 3.0 (0.8) 2.9 (1.2) 5.9 (1.8)
Blocking/stuttering 19% (23/120) 2.4 (1.0) 2.5 (0.9) 4.8 (1.8)
Other Vocal Tics 29% (34/117) 2.5 (1.0) 2.5 (0.9) 4.9 (1.6)
Complex Vocal Combinations (multiple tics at once) 14% (16/117) 2.3 (0.8) 2.5 (0.7) 4.6 (1.6)
Total Vocal Tics M(SD) 2.3 (2.3)2 2.4 (0.9) 2.1 (0.8) 13.4 (12.1)
Total Scores 8.1 (4.5) 2.6 (0.6) 2.3 (0.7) 39.5 (25.0)

Note. Present = number of different types of tics presented in the last week; Frequency = frequency of tics in the past week (1–4 Likert-type scale); Intensity = intensity of tics in the past week (1–4 Likert-type scale); Severity = severity of presented tics;

1

n = 121;

2

n = 96.