Identifying features of 'pathological demand avoidance' using the Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO).

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry · 2016 · PMC4820467 · PMID 26224583

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closest p · 1.4× alpha

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approached significancep = 0.072so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The difference in mean age approached significance ( t (36) = 1.85, p = 0.072, Cohen’s d = 0.61).

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marginally significantno p-value reported

For ‘Quality of Social communication: current behaviour’, the results showed a tendency for those in the PDA group to have less acute difficulties (Freeman–Halton approximation of Fisher’s exact test, two-sided, p = 0.044) [ 16 ], though this marginally significant result would not have survived correction for multiple comparisons and should be viewed with caution.

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