Table 1.
Characteristics of the participant sample.
| Boys Town (N = 109) |
Community (N = 41) |
Total (N = 150) |
t/χ2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | s.d. | Mean | s.d. | Mean | s.d. | ||
| Age | 16.15 | 1.04 | 16.05 | 1.18 | 16.12 | 1.08 | 0.49 |
| IQ | 99.41 | 12.64 | 103.51 | 10.88 | 100.53 | 12.29 | 1.84 |
| %age Female | 33.02% | 53.66% | 38.67% | 5.35* | |||
| AUDIT | 5.39 | 7.49 | 0.37 | 0.74 | 4.01 | 6.77 | 4.82* |
| CUDIT | 9.91 | 9.78 | 0.41 | 1.30 | 7.31 | 9.37 | 6.29* |
| Smoking | 1.76 | 1.51 | 0.20 | 0.60 | 1.33 | 1.50 | 6.42* |
| ADHD | 66.97% | 14.63% | 52.67% | 32.74* | |||
| CD | 67.89% | 4.88% | 50.67% | 47.33* | |||
| MDD | 30.28% | 24.39% | 28.67% | 0.51 | |||
| GAD | 28.44% | 12.2% | 24% | 3.42 | |||
| CBCL: ADHD | 6.74 | 3.24 | 1.88 | 3.03 | 5.38 | 3.86 | 8.05* |
| CBCL: CD | 13.72 | 6.54 | 1.24 | 2.13 | 9.82 | 8.03 | 11.90* |
| SCARED: GAD | 6.57 | 5.16 | 6.24 | 4.36 | 6.48 | 4.94 | 0.35 |
| SCARED: SAD | 4.90 | 3.88 | 5.83 | 4.09 | 5.16 | 3.95 | 1.29 |
| SCARED: Total | 20.37 | 16.08 | 19.85 | 14.33 | 20.22 | 15.56 | −0.18 |
| MFQ | 18.01 | 13.97 | 3.97 | 6.75 | 13.40 | 13.76 | 6.09* |
Key to Table 1: ADHD/CD/MDD/GAD: Percentage of participants meeting criteria for these psychiatric diagnoses; CBCL: ADHD & CD: CBCL raw scores for ADHD and CD; SCARED: GAD, SAD & Total: GAD and SAD subscales of the SCARED as well as total score. * indicates t-value or χ2-value significant at a threshold of p<.05.