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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 Nov;48(11):3678–3688. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3460-2

Table 4.

RBSR Scale results based on Home SIB and Home and Hospital SIB groups

RBSR Scale
%(N) or mean (SD) Any SIB (N = 224) Home
SIB only
(N = 149)
Home and
Hospital SIB
(N = 75)
Stat (p-value) ES (95% CI)
Hits self with body part (RBSR1) 65.18 (146) 55.03 (82) 85.33 (64) 18.87 (< .0001) − 0.68 (− 0.98, − 0.42)
Hits self against surface or object (RBSR2) 62.95 (141) 55.03 (82) 78.67 (59) 10.95 (0.001) − 0.51 (− 0.80, −0.24)
Hits self with object (RBSR3) 29.91 (67) 26.85 (40) 36 (27) 1.58 (0.209) − 0.20 (− 0.48, 0.09)
Bits self (RBSR4) 40.62 (91) 34.9 (52) 52 (39) 5.36 (0.021) − 0.35 (− 0.63, −0.07)
Pulls (RBSR5) 33.04 (74) 30.2 (45) 38.67 (29) 1.26 (0.262) − 0.18 (− 0.46, 0.1)
Rubs or Scratches self (RBSR6) 43.3 (97) 42.28 (63) 45.33 (34) 0.09 (0.77) − 0.06 (− 0.34, 0.22)
Inserts Finger or Object (RBSR7) 14.35 (32) 12.84 (19) 17.33 (13) 0.49 (0.482) − 0.11 (− 0.38, 0.17)
Skin Picking (RBSR8) 44.64 (100) 46.98 (70) 40.00 (30) 0.72 (0.396) 0.14 (− 0.14, 0.42)
Number of RBSR items scored ≥ 2 3.35 (1.87) 3.05 (1.83) 3.93 (1.8) 11.39 (.0007) − 0.49 (− 0.77, − 0.20)
Total RBSR Score 9.78 (5.01) 8.85 (4.94) 11.6 (4.67) 15.97 (.0001) − 0.57 (− 0.85, − 0.28)