Table 1: Description of the Child Behavior Checklist scale scores among children affected by selective mutism at T0 and after six months of psychomotor therapy (T1).
Table 1 shows the differences (mean and SD) of SM children in CBCL items between baseline (T0) and after 6 months of psychomotor treatment (T1).
The Chi-square test was used.
p values <0.05 were considered statistically significant.
SM at T0 N=67 SM at T1 N=67 p
Activities competence 35.48±8.19 34.12±7.01 0.304
Social Relations 68.59±5.46 58.12±6.90 <0.001
School competence 61.03±5.98 58.96±6.32 0.054
Competence Total 34.42±8.15 35.26±6.37 0.507
Withdrawn 63.18±7.14 59.82±6.97 0.007
Somatic Complaints 52.03±8.15 51.94±9.03 0.952
Anxious/Depressed 72.36±5.66 68.94±6.06 <0.001
Social problems 59.07±8.33 52.98±9.67 <0.001
Thought problems 47.81±9.04 45.52±9.73 0.160
Attention-hyperactive 36.48±9.61 38.93±10.15 0.154
Delinquent 34.59±6.76 36.19±7.83 0.208
Aggressive 41.35±9.72 44.05±8.77 0.094
Internalizing problems 70.82±6.51 68.04±7.19 0.020
Externalizing problems 49.34±11.09 48.01±10.83 0.484
Total problems 72.03±9.14 63.24±8.51 <0.001