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. 2021 Jan 26;116:104945. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.104945

Table 1.

Demographic, maltreatment, and placement data comparisons for April 2019 vs. April 2020.

April 2019 April 2020 t or X2 p-value
(n = 1308) (n = 993)
Demographics
Age (mean, SD) 6.31 (5.28) 5.89 (5.33) 1.88 0.06
Categorical age:
Less than 1 mo 9.48 10.27 0.32 0.57
0.00−3.00 yo 36.85 41.29 4.50 .03*
3.01−5.99 yo 17.74 16.82 0.27 0.60
6.00−12.99 yo 30.43 26.69 3.67 0.06
13.00−17.99 yo 14.98 15.21 0.01 0.92
Sex:
% Male 51.07 49.35 0.61 0.44
Ethnicity
% Hispanic 17.43 16.82 0.11 0.74
Race
% White 67.58 72.31 5.73 .02*
% Black 36.47 31.12 6.95 .01*
% Asian American 0.54 0.50 < 0.01 0.99
% Native American 0.31 1.51 8.59 <.01*
% Pacific Island/Hawaiian 0.08 0.30 0.61 0.43
% Multiracial 4.74 5.04 0.05 0.82
Citizenship
% Citizen 98.85 98.69 0.03 0.87
Primary Language
% English 63.23 62.34 0.16 0.69
% Spanish 0.31 0.71 1.14 0.28
% Haitian/Creole 0.15 0.10 < 0.01 0.99
% English-Spanish 0.38 0.91 1.77 0.18
% Other Language 1.15 0.81 0.36 0.55
Youth Behavior/Characteristics
% With Disability 0.46 0.50 < 0.01 0.99
% With Behavior Problem 2.15 2.82 0.83 0.36
% With Alcohol Abuse 0.15 0.30 0.10 0.76
% With Drug Abuse 0.92 1.11 0.06 0.81
Experience of Maltreatment
% Any Maltreatment 84.17 87.51 4.84 .03*
% Physical Abuse 12.39 13.19 0.26 0.61
% Sexual Abuse 3.21 2.52 0.73 0.39
% Physical Neglect 2.45 2.01 0.30 0.58
% Medical Neglect 3.36 3.52 0.01 0.93
% Inadequate Supervision 19.88 20.04 < 0.01 0.96
% Emotional Neglect 27.60 23.67 4.35 .04*
% Parental Drug Abuse 42.74 57.60 49.32 <.01*
% Parental Alcohol Abuse 7.80 8.56 0.34 0.56
% Domestic Violence 21.87 27.69 10.09 <.01*

Note. Differing superscripts (*) indicate comparisons that were significant p< .05 for continuous variables via t−test, including: age, and for categorical variables via Chi−square, including: all other demographic, characteristic, maltreatment.