. 2018 Jan 29;9:6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00006

Table 4.

Clinical comparison for patients based on type of illegal act committed.

	Petty Theft		Other		Multiple		Petty theft vs. Other		Petty theft vs. multiple		Other vs. multiple

	n =38		n =29		n =11

	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p	\|d\|	p	\|d\|	p	\|d\|
Gambling: duration-severity
Age (years-old)	38.53	15.90	40.45	8.57	38.45	6.12	0.536	0.15	0.987	0.01	0.655	0.27
GD onset (years-old)	26.86	12.82	26.05	7.14	24.22	8.38	0.760	0.08	0.502	0.24	0.650	0.23
GD duration (years)	7.92	7.61	8.25	6.95	11.00	9.15	0.862	0.05	0.277	0.37	0.346	0.34
Maximum spent/episode (€)	1,493	2,645	3,657	1,1055	1,503	2,911	0.220	0.27	0.997	0.00	0.393	0.27
Mean amount spent/episode (€)	110	183	326	921	79	113	0.134	0.33	0.877	0.20	0.233	0.38
Cumulate debts (€)	3,083	8,314	21,593	23,680	26,380	26,480	0.001^a	1.04^b	0.001^a	1.19^b	0.491	0.19
DSM-5 total criteria	7.68	1.36	7.55	1.48	7.36	1.36	0.703	0.09	0.507	0.24	0.706	0.13
SOGS total score	11.84	2.63	12.45	3.42	14.27	1.42	0.389	0.20	0.015^a	1.15^b	0.074	0.70^b
Substances: use-abuse	n	%	n	%	N	%	p	*\|d\|*	p	*\|d\|*	p	*\|d\|*
Tobacco use	20	52.6%	16	55.2%	5	45.5%	0.836	0.05	0.675	0.14	0.583	0.20
Alcohol use-abuse	6	15.8%	5	17.2%	2	18.2%	0.874	0.04	0.850	0.06	0.944	0.02
Other drugs use-abuse	9	23.7%	5	17.2%	1	9.1%	0.520	0.16	0.290	0.40	0.519	0.24

|d|, Cohens’-d measuring effect size.

p includes Bonferroni–Finner correction for multiple comparisons.

^aSignificant comparison.

^bEffect size in the moderate (|d| > 0.50) to high (|d| > 0.80) range.