Table 2: Demographic, academic, court-related, and mental health service use characteristics of FTO CINI sexual minority and non-sexual minority adolescents.
| Sourcea | Total sample (n=423) |
Sexual minorities (n=133) |
Non-sexual minorities (n=290) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| t(df) | p | |||||
| Mean age at interview, in years (SD) | A | 14.6 (1.5) | 14.6 (1.4) | 14.5 (1.6) | −.04 (421) | .660 |
| X2 | p | |||||
| Female, n (%)b | A | 193 (46.0) | 93 (71.5) | 100 (34.6) | 49.20 | <.001 |
| Latinx, n (%) | A | 181 (43.6) | 52 (39.4) | 129 (45.6) | 1.40 | .326 |
| Race, n (%) | A | 1.86 | .464 | |||
| White | 156 (38.0) | 54 (41.2) | 102 (36.4) | |||
| African American | 53 (12.9) | 13 (9.9) | 40 (14.3) | |||
| Other c | 202 (49.2) | 64 (48.9) | 138 (49.3) | |||
| Employed, n (%) | A | 44 (10.8) | 12 (9.4) | 32 (11.4) | .38 | .594 |
| Annual family income, n (%) | C | .56 | .773 | |||
| $0-$19,999 | 193 (47.9) | 58 (46.0) | 135 (48.7) | |||
| $20,000-$39,999 | 120 (29.8) | 37 (29.4) | 83 (30.0) | |||
| >$39,000 | 90 (22.3) | 31 (24.6) | 59 (21.3) | |||
| Ever repeated a grade, n (%) | C, A | 153 (36.2) | 47 (35.3) | 106 (36.6) | .05 | .809 |
| Ever been expelled, n (%) | C, A | 69 (16.4) | 18 (13.5) | 51 (17.7) | 1.12 | .385 |
| Current grades, n (%) | A | |||||
| A's and B's | 76 (18.7) | 28 (21.7) | 48 (17.3) | 4.59 | .427 | |
| B's and C's | 152 (37.4) | 42 (32.7) | 110 (39.6) | |||
| C's and D's | 94 (23.1) | 27 (20.9) | 67 (24.1) | |||
| D's | 34 (8.4) | 11 (8.5) | 23 (8.3) | |||
| Failing all classes | 51 (12.5) | 21 (16.3) | 30 (10.8) | |||
| Ever received special education, n (%) | C, A | 160 (37.8) | 53 (39.9) | 107 (36.9) | .33 | .606 |
| Ever had IEP or 504, n (%) | C, A | 185 (43.7) | 65 (48.9) | 120 (41.4) | 2.08 | .239 |
| Charge type, n (%) | Court records | .39 | .604 | |||
| Status offender | 194 (45.9) | 58 (43.6) | 136 (46.9) | |||
| Delinquent offender | 229 (54.1) | 75 (56.4) | 154 (53.1) | |||
| Mental health service use, lifetime, n (%) | ||||||
| Any psychiatric services d | C, A | 301 (71.2) | 110 (82.7) | 191 (65.9) | 12.61 | .002 |
| Prescription of psychotropic medications | C, A | 149 (35.2) | 62 (46.6) | 87 (30.0) | 11.03 | .003 |
Abbreviation: IEP, individualized education plan
Bolded values indicate significant differences between sexual-minority and non-sexual-minorities, p<.05. The Benjamini-Hochberg procedure was applied to control the false-discovery rate at 5%.
Denotes caregiver (C), adolescent (A), or both (C, A) respondents.
Biological sex was self-reported by adolescents.
“Other” includes American Indian, Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, mixed or multi-racial, and “other”
Includes history of inpatient psychiatric or drug/alcohol-related hospitalization, residential treatment center, intensive or routine outpatient psychiatric or drug/alcohol-related services, crisis center, in-home mental health services, or “professional help” from a mental health clinician