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. 2018 Jul 18;49(5):828–842. doi: 10.1017/S0033291718001484

Table 3.

Comparison of teacher-reported secondary outcomes

Outcome Intervention arm (I) Control arm (C) Adjusted mean difference/odds ratioa
Mean (s.d.)/% Mean (s.d.)/% Estimate 95% CI p value ICC
SDQ Total difficulties score in struggling rangeb
9–30-months 16.7% 19.2% 0.70 0.48–0.99 0.05 0.062
SDQ Behaviour score
9-months 0.7 (1.5) 0.9 (1.6) −0.1 −0.3 to 0.1 0.27 0.092
18-months 1.0 (1.8) 0.9 (1.7) −0.03 −0.3 to 0.3 0.86 0.117
30-months 0.9 (1.5) 1.0 (1.8) −0.2 −0.5 to 0.1 0.18 0.104
SDQ Emotions score
9-months 1.3 (1.9) 1.5 (2.2) −0.3 −0.6 to 0.1 0.14 0.202
18-months 1.7 (2.2) 1.6 (2.1) 0.1 −0.3 to 0.6 0.63 0.179
30-months 1.6 (2.1) 1.6 (2.1) −0.005 −0.4 to 0.3 0.98 0.090
SDQ Overactivity score
9–30-months 2.7 (2.9) 2.8 (3.0) −0.4 −0.7 to −0.1 0.02 0.079
SDQ Peer relationships score
9-months 0.8 (1.4) 1.0 (1.7) −0.2 −0.4 to −0.03 0.02 0.119
18-months 1.1 (1.7) 1.0 (1.6) 0.1 −0.2 to 0.4 0.62 0.131
30-months 1.1 (1.6) 1.1 (1.7) −0.07 −0.4 to 0.2 0.60 0.098
SDQ Pro-social score
9-months 8.2 (2.3) 8.0 (2.3) 0.4 0.1– 0.8 0.02 0.251
18-months 7.8 (2.4) 8.0 (2.3) −0.1 −0.6 to 0.4 0.67 0.204
30-months 8.1 (2.2) 7.6 (2.3) 0.5 −0.03 to 1.0 0.06 0.164
SDQ Impact score >0
9–30-months 34.5% 37.3% 0.80 0.61–1.05 0.11 0.048
Pupil behaviour questionnaire
9–30-months 1.8 (2.4) 1.9 (2.6) −0.3 −0.5 to −0.01 0.04 0.042
a

Mean difference reported for quantitative outcomes and odds ratios reported for binary outcomes.

b

Struggling scoring 12 or more out of 40.

The sample size for 9-month assessments is 981 in the intervention arm and 1020 in the control arm.

The sample size for 18-month assessment is 894 in the intervention arm and 954 in the control arm.

The sample size for 30-month assessment is 856 in the intervention arm and 900 in the control arm.

ICC – Intra-cluster (intra-school) correlation coefficient from crude (unadjusted) analysis.