Table 1.
Service Use and Demographic Characteristics by Pattern of Service Use
| Pattern | N | Total | Sex1 | Age2 | Number of episodes | Duration of involvement (years) | Duration of involvement > 2 years | Visits over 4 years | Volume of all services3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | 0 | 1 | 2+ | ||||||||
| % | % | M (SD) | (%) | (%) | (%) | M (SD) | % | M (SD) | % | ||
| Minimal | 2997 | 53 | 61.5 | 10.1 (2.6)A | 60.9 | 37.3 | 1.8 | 0.4 (0.8) | 6.3 | 3.1 (2.9) | 9.8 |
| Acute | 1131 | 20 | 60.9 | 9.9 (2.5) AB | *** | 95.6 | 4.2 | 0.8 (0.7) | 8.2 | 15.6 (17.4) | 18.5 |
| Brief Episodic | 447 | 8 | 62.2 | 9.3 (2.5) C | *** | 27.3 | 72.0 | 3.5 (0.5) | 99.8 | 28.6 (28.0) | 14.2 |
| Intensive | 730 | 13 | 67.8 | 9.7 (2.5) B | – | 73.4 | 26.6 | 1.8 (0.8) | 31.1 | 32.6 (28.6) | 25.9 |
| Ongoing/ Intensive-Episodic | 327 | 6 | 61.2 | 9.9 (2.4) AB | – | 54.4 | 45.5 | 3.3 (0.6) | 100.0 | 86.7 (105.8) | 31.6 |
| Total Sample | 5632 | 100 | 62.3 | 9.9 (2.6) | 32.5 | 53.9 | 13.7 | 1.1 (1.3) | 22.8 | 16.3 (36.1) | 100.0 |
Note. *** reflects < 5 children within the category; data not reported. --- reflects no cases in a cell
1Sex differed across patterns [χ2 (4) = 11.279, p = .024]. The Intensive pattern had proportionally more boys than expected [Adjusted residual χ2(1) = 11.022, p < .001]
2Age at intake differed across patterns [F (4, 5627) = 11.8, p < .0001]. Means followed by a common superscript letter are not significantly different at p < 0.05 (Bonferroni post-hoc test)
3Volume of all services: Visits were summed across all clients and all agencies within each of the five patterns, and divided by the sum of all visits for all clients and agencies