Research Article
How Sex of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Access to Treatment Services Relates to Parental Stress
Table 1
Descriptive statistics.
| | | Total sample percentage or mean (SD) | Boys percentage or mean (SD) | Girls percentage or mean (SD) | (df = 1) or (df = 116) | (Levine’s test for equality of variances) |
| | Child gender (% male) | 78% | — | — | — | — | | Child age (in years) | 5.36 (3.34) | 4.97 (3.10) | 6.67 (3.83) | 2.33 | 3.90 | | Percent Hispanica | 30.3% | 27.7% | 38.5% | 1.08 | — | | Child race (% minority) | 58.3% | 64.0% | 38.5% | 11.62 | — | | Family income (% <$ 50 k)b | 23.0% | 24.6% | 21.4% | 3.64 | — | | Speech services (% yes) | 48.7% | 51.7% | 38.5% | 1.41 | — | | School services (% yes) | 13.9% | 11.2% | 23.1% | 2.36 | — | | Regional Center services (% yes) | 23.5% | 25.8% | 15.4% | 1.23 | — | | Mental health services (% yes) | 45.2% | 44.9% | 46.2% | 0.01 | — | | Total services | 1.30 (1.06) | 1.33 (1.05) | 1.23 (1.11) | −0.40 | 0.62 | | PSI difficult child | 32.95 (9.89) | 31.74 (8.83) | 37.08 (12.19) | 2.08 | 7.37 | | PSI parent-child dysfunctional relationship | 25.17 (7.69) | 24.07 (7.17) | 28.92 (8.35) | 2.93 | 3.47 | | PSI parent distress | 25.66 (8.54) | 25.17 (8.02) | 27.35 (10.09) | 1.15 | 1.82 | | PSI total score | 87.82 (23.14) | 86.60 (21.54) | 92.00 (28.03) | 1.10 | 3.90 | | ADOS social-communication composite | 52.21 (22.73) | 53.76 (21.78) | 46.88 (25.47) | −1.36 | 0.94 |
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Note: = 27 girls, 89 boys except where otherwise noted.
= 27 girls, 83 boys; 6 participants did not report ethnicity.
= 15 girls, 57 boys; 44 participants did not report income.
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