Table 2.

Baseline characteristics for autistic Prisma participants and comparison of intervention completers to non-completers

	All n = 92	Completers n = 71	Non-Completers n = 21	χ2/t value
Mean age (range) (SD)	31.4 (18–64) (11.8)	32.7 (18–64) (12.0)	27.1 (18–50) (9.9)	1.98 ns
Gender female n (%)	45 (48.9%)	31 (43.6%)	14 (66.7%)	3.43 ns
Highest education n (%)
9 year compulsory school or less	17 (19.1%)	12 (17.1%)	5 (26.3%)	2.04 ns
High school	53 (59.6%)	41 (58.6%)	12 (63.2%)
University degree (or higher)	19 (21.3%)	17 (24.3%)	2 (10.5%)
Occupation n (%)
Employed/student	33 (37.1%)	24 (34.3%)	9 (47.4%)	1.10 ns
Unemployed	56 (62.9%)	38 (65.7%)	10 (52.6%)
Partner n (%)	37 (43.5%)	32 (47.1%)	5 (29.0%)	1.72 ns
Years diagnosed with ASD n (%)
≤1 years:	60 (67.4%)	49 (70.0%)	11 (57.9%)	1.00 ns
> 1 years:	29 (32.6%)	21 (30.0%)	8 (42.1%)
Comorbidity n (%)
Other neurodevelopmental disorders	44 (50.0%)	34 (48.6%)	10 (55.6%)	0.28 ns
Other psychiatric disorders	54 (61.3%)	45 (64.3%)	9 (50%)	1.23 ns
No neurodevelopmental or psychiatric disorders	15 (17.0%)	12 (17.1%)	3 (16.7%)	0.01 ns
Self-reported physical illness/diseases	35 (39.8%)	26 (37.7%)	9 (47.4%)	0.58 ns
Other treatments	37 (41.6%)	32 (45.7%)	5 (26.3%)	2.32 ns
RAADS-14 screen mean (SD)	27.4 (9.4)	26.9 (9.74)	29.2 (8.2)	0.94 ns

Note: ns non-significant, SD Standard deviation, RAADS The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale

The percentages are counted by entering the number of individuals having data for that variable in the denominator