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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Psychiatry. 2018 Nov 6;88:57–64. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2018.10.012

Table 5a.

Demographic Characteristics of Children with ASD by Concomitant Diagnostic Condition1,2

Co-occuring Disorder
Group
Sex Age IQ
Male
(N = 563)
Female
(N = 94)
P-value ≤6 year
(N = 268)
> 6 years
(N = 390)
p-value < 70
(N = 257)
≥ 70
(N = 376)
p-value
ADHD 464 (82.3%) 70 (74.5%) 0.073 212 (79.1%) 322 (82.6%) 0.265 203 (79.0%) 311 (82.7%) 0.239
ODD 260 (46.2%) 39 (41.5%) 0.398 139 (51.9%) 160 (41.1%) 0.007* 96 (37.4%) 195 (51.9%) <0.001*
CD 64 (11.4%) 13 (13.8%) 0.496 35 (13.1%) 42 (10.8%) 0.366 35 (13.6%) 40 (10.7%) 0.260
Any Anxiety Diosrder 237 (42.1%) 38 (40.4%) 0.761 103 (38.4%) 172 (44.2%) 0.140 82 (31.9%) 188 (50.0%) <0.001*
Any Mood Disorder 42 (7.5%) 7 (7.5%) 1.00 23 (8.6%) 26 (6.7%) 0.358 10 (3.9%) 35 (9.3%) 0.009*
Internalizing Disorder 249 (44.2%) 41 (43.6%) 0.912 111 (41.4%) 179 (46.0%) 0.244 85 (33.1%) 197 (52.4%) <0.001*
Externalizing Disorder 492 (87.4%) 76 (80.9%) 0.086 232 (86.6%) 336 (86.4%) 0.944 212 (82.5%) 336 (89.4%) 0.013*
2 additional disorders * 373 (66.1%) 62 (66.0%) 0.973 180 (67.2%) 255 (65.4%) 0.636 148 (57.6%) 276 (73.4%) <0.001*
1

Groups are not mutually exclusive

2

Percents are percent of the column with the indicated diagnosis