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. 2018 Oct 31;31(2):e000009. doi: 10.1136/gpsych-2018-000009

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.