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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2018 Nov 16;96:194–203. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.11.035

Table 7.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Less Intensive Subgroups

Highly Intensive to
Moderately
Intensive (n=103)
Highly Intensive to
Medication Only
(n=53)
Moderately
Intensive to
Medication Only
(n=157)
Client characteristics Mean (SD, range) or % (n)
Functioning 35.02 (15.26, 0-69)a 28.83 (14.25, 0-51)a,c 35.89 (13.40, 4-80)c
Problem Severity 42.35 (18.95, 15-95)a,b 49.77 (16.11, 12-90)a,c 37.28 (16.01, 7-82)b,c
Risk of Harm to Others 3.13 (.83, 1-4) 3.87 (.48, 2-5) 2.74 (.82, 1-5)
Substance Use 1.22 (.65, 1-4) 1.17 (.54, 1-4) 1.13 (.45, 1-4)
School Problems 3.67 (1.1, 1-5)a,b 4.04 (.59, 1-5)a,c 3.00 (1.07, 1-5)b,c
Diagnosis
 Conduct 43.7% (n=45)b 45.3% (n=24)c 17.2% (n=27)bc
 Depression 35.9% (n=37)a 28.3% (n=15)a 39.5% (n=62)
Reasons for overrides
 Resources 82% (n=85) 2% (n=1) 3.8% (n=6)
Limitations
 Clinician Override 0% (n=0) 0% (n=0) 0% (n=0)
 Client Preference 14% (n=15) 0% (n=0) 1.3% (n=2)
 Other 2.9% (n=3) 98% (n=52) 95% (n=149)
a,b,c

Means/percentages with the same superscripts differ significantly from one another, p < .05