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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2020 Nov 6;6(4):399–409. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2020.10.019

Table 2:

Clinical Characteristics of the ABCD Sample

Full Sample (N=11876) OCD Absent (n=10584) OCD Present (n=1099) Group Difference Effect Size
CBCL T-score
 DSM Anxiety 53.49 (6.13) 52.89 (5.35) 59.21 (9.29) t=22.16 d=0.83
 DSM Depression 53.6 (5.73) 53.13 (5.21) 58.19 (8.02) t=20.45 d=0.75
 Thought Problems 53.8 (5.9) 53.13 (5.14) 60.19 (8.45) t=27.17 d= 1.01
 DSM ADHD 53.23 (5.64) 52.79 (5.13) 57.55 (8.04) t= 19.18 d=0.71
 Internalizing 48.45 (10.64) 47.46 (10.12) 57.88 (10.8) t=30.58 d=1.00
 Externalizing 45.73 (10.33) 44.98 (9.92) 52.94 (11.41) t=22.25 d=0.75
 Total 45.85 (11.34) 44.78 (10.78) 56.17 (11.4) t=31.63 d=1.03
K-SADS lifetime diagnosis
 Any Depressive Disorder 1272 (10.9%) 1014 (9.61%) 247 (22.6%) χ2=171.62 OR=2.75
  MDD 614 (5.27%) 475 (4.5%) 137 (12.53%) χ2=126.64 OR=3.04
  Dysthymia 24 (0.21%) 18 (0.17%) 6 (0.55%) χ2=5.17 OR=3.23
  Depression NOS 697 (5.97%) 570 (5.4%) 117 (10.7%) χ2=49.19 OR=2.10
 Any Anxiety Disorder 1730 (14.83%) 1307 (12.39%) 419 (38.23%) χ2=523.32 OR=4.38
  Separation Anxiety 1047 (8.95%) 783 (7.4%) 263 (23.93%) χ2=331.82 OR=3.94
  Social Anxiety 619 (5.31%) 477 (4.52%) 140 (12.8%) χ2=133.59 OR=3.10
  GAD 579 (4.96%) 382 (3.62%) 195 (17.81%) χ2=420.87 OR=5.76
 ADHD 2428 (20.76%) 1921 (18.15%) 506 (46.04%) χ2=468.92 OR=3.85
 ODD/CD 1782 (15.24%) 1397 (13.2%) 385 (35.03%) χ2=365.45 OR=3.55
 PTSD 231 (1.98%) 141 (1.33%) 90 (8.19%) χ2=238.01 OR=6.60
 No diagnoses 7348 (61.99%) 6898 (65.17%) 296 (26.93%) χ2=613.74 OR=0.20
Unmedicated 10739 (90.43%) 9704 (91.69%) 859 (78.16%) χ2=208.52 OR=0.32

Note. Clinical characteristics of the sample are summarized here for the full ABCD baseline sample and split by the presence/absence of a lifetime K-SADS OCD diagnosis. Continuous and categorical variables are characterized respectively by mean and (standard deviation) or N and (percent) with group differences based on OCD diagnosis presence are compared by t-test (Cohen’s d effect size) or chi-squared test (odds ratio [OR] effect size). All group differences were p<.001 significant, except for dysthymia (p=.02). No diagnoses indicated that none of the listed disorders were diagnosed past or present on the K-SADS.

N=193 missing K-SADS OCD diagnosis. Additionally, n=10 missing CBCL T-scores, n=42 missing MDD and Dysthymia, n=40 missing Depression NOS, n=41 missing Social Anxiety, n=40 missing GAD.