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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 Oct 22;206:107605. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107605

Table 2.

Top 30 Items for predicting high substance use risk at age 10–12.

Questions Feature Importance Importance rank chi2 p-value
Do you often swear or use bad language? 0.0069 1 42.3804 0.0000
Do you have difficulty playing quietly? 0.0055 2 39.0885 0.0000
My child eats about the same amount at breakfast from day to day (Parents) 0.0047 3 10.9055 0.0010
Are you touchy or easily annoyed by others? 0.0043 4 26.8952 0.0000
About how many times a week does your child do things with any friends outside of regular school hours? (Parents) 0.0042 5 4.7421 0.0294
Do you have difficulty staying in line in the supermarket or waiting for your turn while you were playing with other children? 0.0042 6 38.1248 0.0000
Do you deliberately refuse adults, or do you refuse to do your chores at home or disobey rules a lot? 0.0041 7 34.7887 0.0000
Do you often argue with adults? 0.0038 8 30.2260 0.0000
How many jobs, chores do your child has? (Parents) 0.0036 9 3.6153 0.0573
Is your child hard to be distracted? (Parents) 0.0033 10 7.8940 0.0050
Does your child get very restless If he/she has to stay in one place for a long time? (Parents) 0.0032 11 11.0743 0.0009
Does your child get hungry about the same time each day? (Parents) 0.0031 12 5.4537 0.0195
Do you get very fidgety after a few minutes if you’re supposed to sit still? 0.0029 13 14.0798 0.0002
Does your child get very fidgety after a few minutes Een when he/she is supposed to be still? (Parents) 0.0028 14 9.3343 0.0022
How many organizations, clubs, teams or groups does your child belongs to? (Parents) 0.0028 15 9.0944 0.0026
Within the past 6 months, does your child, hangs around with other who get in troubles? (Parents) 0.0027 16 19.4536 0.0000
Compared to others of his/her age, how well does your child play and work alone? (Parents) 0.0027 17 3.2823 0.0700
No matter when your child goes to sleep, does he/she wake up at the same time the next morning? (Parents) 0.0027 18 8.0267 0.0046
Does your child have difficulty following through on instructions from others (not due to oppositional behavior or failure of comprehension), e.g., fails to finish chores? (Parents) 0.0027 19 42.7693 0.0000
Does failure at a task or in school make your work harder? 0.0026 20 3.7005 0.0544
Can you read a book for half an hour before you get restless? 0.0026 21 6.6266 0.0100
Do you get into trouble because you would do things without thinking about them first, for example running into the street without looking? 0.0025 22 29.7495 0.0000
Do you get very restless when you have to stay in one place for a long time? 0.0025 23 8.9215 0.0028
Does your child wake up the same time each day when he/she is away from home? (Parents) 0.0024 24 8.0571 0.0045
Do your heart beats fast for a long time when you get stirred up? 0.0023 25 4.4068 0.0358
Do you have so much energy that you just can’t stop moving? 0.0023 26 8.2014 0.0042
Do you get so excited that I remain very excited for a long time after watching an action show? 0.0023 27 6.5546 0.0105
Are you easily distracted? 0.0023 28 6.9223 0.0085
Compared to others of the same age, about how much time does your child spend in hobbies, activities and games other than sports? (Parents) 0.0023 29 0.6293 0.4276
Do you develop a plan for all your important goals? 0.0022 30 3.3211 0.0684