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Withdrawn | 63.18±7.14 | 59.82±6.97 | 0.007 |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 |