Table 4.

Association between parents, children and therapists factors with parent engagement in DIR/Floortime

	Quality of parental engagement		χ2	P values	Time spenton using DIR/Floortime		χ2	P values	Time spent on practice daily life skills		χ2	P values	Times of structured activities		χ2	P values
	Low	High			≤2 hours	>2 hours			≤1 hour	>1 hour			≤1 hour	>1 hour
Parent
Status			0.47	0.495*			3.45	0.063*			4.43†	0.035*			0.28	0.866*
Living with spouses	22	16			24	14			21	17			27	11
Widow/divorce/Separated	3	1			4	0			4	0			3	1
Income			0.48	0.491			13.10‡	<0.001			3.34	0.067			0.04	0.845
≤50 000 baht	13	7			8	12			9	11			14	6
>50 000 baht	12	10			20	2			16	6			16	6
Knowledge of DIR/Floortime			4.06†	0.044			0.00	1.000			0.37	0.543			0.26	0.613
≤6 points	12	3			10	5			8	7			10	5
>6 points	13	14			18	9			17	10			20	7
Parent depression level			0.02	0.888*			0.09	0.767*			2.69	0.101*			0.79	0.374*
Minimal to mild	21	14			23	12			19	16			26	9
Moderate to moderate severe	4	3			5	2			6	1			4	3
Attitude			0.04	0.848*			2.21	0.138*			3.65	0.056*			0.06	0.802*
Excellent	20	14			21	13			18	16			24	10
Good	5	3			7	1			7	1			6	2
Child
Average age (beginning of treatment)			0.32	0.569			0.19	0.662			1.74	0.187			0.24	0.625
≤ 3 years	11	9		14	6			14	6			15	5
>3 years	14	8			14	8			11	11			15	7
Severity			0.00	0.972*			1.12	0.290*			5.83†	0.016*			0.01	0.909*
Mild to moderate	6	4			8	2			9	1			7	3
Severe	19	13			20	12			16	16			23	9
Provider and service
Relationship			0.08	0.780*			1.67	0.196*			0.78	0.780*			1.39	0.239*
Excellent	24	16			26	14			24	16			28	12
Poor	1	1			2	0			1	1			2	0
Time period (beginning of treatment)			4.72†	0.030*			0.26	0.612*			0.49	0.485*			0.81	0.370*
≤48 months	22	10			22	10			20	12			24	8
>48 months	3	7			6	4			5	5			6	4

*Likelihood ratio test.

†Correlation is significant at the 0.05 (two tailed).

‡Correlation is significant at the 0.01 (two tailed).

DIR; Developmental, Individual-differences, Relationship-based model.