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Table 4 Selected Kendall’s tau correlations between substance variables and clinical severity and complexity outcomes

From: The CAMP study: feasibility and clinical correlates of standardized assessments of substance use in a youth psychiatric inpatient sample

 

Youth-reported psychiatric symptomatology as per OCHS-EBS

Physician-reported

SP

GAD

MDE

ADHD

ODD

CD

Total # surpassing clinical thresholds

Aggressive threats and behaviors

Total # of discharge diagnoses based on categories

Frequency

 Cannabis

− 0.076

0.007

0.075

0.128

0.266b

0.309b

0.212b

0.227a

0.117

 Alcohol

0.054

0.038

0.105

0.073

0.210b

0.250b

0.200a

0.212a

0.093

 Cigarette

0.005

0.069

0.071

0.185a

0.295b

0.447b

0.280b

0.324b

0.167

 E-cigarette

− 0.021

0.05

0.107

0.14

0.259b

0.300b

0.284b

0.136

0.141

 Prescription

0.208a

0.245b

0.279b

0.168a

0.230b

0.319b

0.360b

0.262b

0.197a

 Other

0.081

0.137

0.174a

0.206a

0.274b

0.374b

0.341b

0.282b

0.200a

Coping motives

 Cannabis coping motives

0.293b

0.398b

0.206

0.001

0.052

0.04

0.229a

− 0.068

0.358a

 Alcohol coping motives

0.128

0.302b

0.236a

0.320b

0.299b

0.316b

0.412b

0.159

0.540b

Substance use disorder scores

 CUDIT total score

− 0.094

0.015

0.072

− 0.041

0.002

− 0.005

0.005

0.039

0.116

 AUDIT total score

0.02

0.123

0.186

0.289b

0.336b

0.444b

0.396b

0.281a

0.442b

Using substances with others

 Using cannabis with others

− 0.172

− 0.14

− 0.112

0.049

0.054

0.108

− 0.043

− 0.085

0.049

 Using alcohol with others

−0.103

− 0.167

− 0.067

− 0.111

− 0.143

− 0.117

− 0.187

− 0.113

− 0.205

  1. More detailed results in Additional file 5, available online
  2. aCorrelation is significant at the 0.05 level (2 tailed)
  3. bCorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)