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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Intellect Disabil Res. 2017 Oct 15;62(2):94–105. doi: 10.1111/jir.12433

Table 6.

Estimated Number of Medications Taken by Levels of Significant Predictors: (n = 105)a

Psychotropic
(Poisson)
Non-psychotropic
(Negative Binomial)

Maladaptive Behavior (SIB-R) Score
Range: 100-147
Average Predicted Number of Medications Mental Health Diagnosis Average Predicted Number of Medications Autism symptoms (SCQ)
Range: 0 - 25 2527
Average Predicted Number of Medications Number of Physical Health Conditions
Range: 0 - 6
Average Predicted Number of Medications
100 0.70*** No 0.67*** 0 0.76*** 0 0.19***
110 0.99*** Yes 1.39*** 5 0.88*** 1 0.32***
120 1.41*** 10 1.03*** 2 0.51***
130 2.01*** 15 1.20*** 3 0.83**
140 2.86*** 20 1.40*** 4 1.34*
25 1.63*** 5 2.18
6 3.54
*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001.

Significance indicates that number of prescriptions is different from 0. All continuous predictors are held at their means. Dichotomous predictors are held at their observed values.