The development and validation of the Youth Actuarial Care Needs Assessment Tool for Non-Offenders (Y-ACNAT-NO)

BMC Psychiatry

Table 3 Prevalence of care needs within three years after the index incident (N = 3200)

	Total sample		Construction sample		Validation sample
	( N = 3200)		( n = 1549)		( n = 1651)
	n ^a	%	n ^a	%	n ^a	%	χ² (1) ^b	Z ^c
Number of juveniles with a supervision order	78	2.4	39	2.5	39	2.4	.029	7.982^***
Number of juveniles associated with a worrisome incident^d	405	12.7	198	12.8	207	12.5	.024	7.575^***
of which: Incidents of domestic strife	120	3.8	67	4.3	53	3.2	2.453	6.021^***
Incidents of domestic violence	295	9.2	146	9.4	149	9.0	.109	4.352^***
Incidents of child abuse	88	2.8	50	3.2	38	2.3	2.229	3.503^***
Incidents of sexual offensive behavior	103	3.2	60	3.9	43	2.6	3.734⁺	3.316^***
Total number of juveniles with a care need	446	13.9	217	14.0	229	13.9	.004	16.169^***

^aNumber of unique juveniles in the sample with a (specific) care need.
^bChi-square tests with Yates’ correction were conducted to determine differences between the construction and validation sample.
^cZ-tests for proportions were conducted to test for differences in the prevalences of care needs between the samples on which the Y-ACNAT-NO and the YC-NAT were based.
^dWorrisome incidents are defined as incidents of domestic strife/violence, child abuse, and sexual offensive behavior that occur at the juvenile’s living address.
⁺p < .10; ^***p < .001.

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