. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jun 22;65(10):e27287. doi: 10.1002/pbc.27287

TABLE 2.

Baseline and year 1 parental distress (BSI indices) and comparison with normative expectations

BSI Measure	Mean ± SD	p-value^a	% Elevated	p-value^b
Baseline Depression	52.38 ± 8.90	0.0104^*	12	0.414
Baseline Anxiety	52.66 ± 10.75	0.0174^*	19	0.001^*
Baseline Global Severity Index	53.05 ± 9.88	0.0032^*	13	0.247
Baseline Positive Symptom Distress Index	54.54 ± 8.21	<.0001^*	16	0.021^*
Year 1 Depression	50.93 ± 8.67	0.3617	9	0.480
Year 1 Anxiety	50.05 ± 10.21	0.9635	7	0.937
Year 1 Global Severity Index	51.16 ± 10.66	0.3539	9	0.480
Year 1 Positive Symptom Distress Index	53.23 ± 9.80	0.0079^*	15	0.001^*

p-values obtained using t-tests comparing sample means with a normative mean of 50 and SD of 10

p-values obtained using chi-square tests, where, in a normative population, 10% would be expected to be “elevated”, defined as having a t score >63

p< .05