Table 5.
Association between improvement of child developmental level and parent engagement in DIR/Floortime
| Developmental improvement | CGI-I | |||||||
| N | Mean (SD) | t | P values | N | Mean (SD) | t | P values | |
| Quality of parent engagement | ||||||||
| Low | 25 | 2.00 (0.20) | −2.00 | 0.053 | 25 | 2.56 (0.12) | 0.16 | 0.872 |
| High | 17 | 2.62 (0.23) | 17 | 2.53 (0.15) | ||||
| Times spent on using DIR/Floortime (per day) | ||||||||
| ≤2 hours | 28 | 2.29 (0.18) | 0.32 | 0.753 | 28 | 2.57 (0.11) | 0.36 | 0.718 |
| >2 hours | 14 | 2.18 (0.31) | 14 | 2.5 (0.17) | ||||
| Times spent on practice of daily life skills (per day) | ||||||||
| ≤1 hours | 25 | 2.46 (0.20) | 1.65 | 0.106 | 25 | 2.40 (0.10) | −2.03 | 0.049* |
| >1 hours | 17 | 1.94 (0.25) | 17 | 2.76 (0.16) | ||||
| Times of structured activities at home (per day) | ||||||||
| ≤1 hours | 30 | 2.20 (0.20) | −0.50 | 0.621 | 30 | 2.50 (0.10) | −0.82 | 0.417 |
| >1 hours | 12 | 2.38 (0.25) | 12 | 2.67 (0.19) | ||||
*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.