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Table 4 Risk-taking behaviours and perceptions among case-groups and healthy controls

From: Clinical implications of ADHD, ASD, and their co-occurrence in early adulthood—the prospective ABIS-study

 

ADHDa (n = 182)

P value

ASDb (n = 78)

P value

Co-occurrencec (n = 51)

P value

Controls (n = 5860)

Case-groups comparisons

Smoking

 

 < .001

 

.150

 

.129

 

a-b***

b-c*

 Yes

36 (24.3%)

 

2 (2.9%)

 

6 (13.3%)

 

385 (7.4%)

 No

112 (75.7%)

 

68 (97.1%)

 

39 (86.7%)

 

4839 (92.6%)

 

e-cigarette smoking

 

 < .001

 

.012

 

.765

 

a-b***

a-c*

 Yes

67 (48.6%)

 

10 (15.6%)

 

10 (27.8%)

 

1438 (30.1%)

 No

71 (51.4%)

 

54 (84.4%)

 

26 (72.2%)

 

3344 (69.9%)

 

Hashish/marijuana smoking

 

.012

 

.038

 

.470

 

a-b**

b-c*

 Yes

32 (22.2%)

 

4 (5.8%)

 

8 (18.6%)

 

757 (14.7%)

 

 No

112 (77.8%)

 

65 (94.2%)

 

35 (81.4%)

 

4399 (85.3%)

 

Snuff use

 

 < .001

 

.392

 

.500

 

a-b*

 Yes

29 (19.6%)

 

5 (7.1%)

 

6 (13.3%)

 

536 (10.3%)

 

 No

119 (80.4%)

 

65 (92.9%)

 

39 (86.7%)

 

4687 (89.7%)

 

Alcohol consumption

 

.797

 

 < .001

 

 < .001

 

a-b**

a-c***

 Yes

126 (86.9%)

 

48 (69.6%)

 

27 (62.8%)

 

4526 (87.6%)

 No

19 (13.1%)

 

21 (30.4%)

 

16 (37.2%)

 

640 (12.4%)

 

Smoking everyday

 

 < .001

 

.210

 

.631

  

 Extremely/quite harmful

117 (79.6%)

 

58 (84.1%)

 

41 (91.1%)

 

4638 (88.9%)

 

 Not/slightly/moderately harmful

30 (20.4%)

 

11 (15.9%)

 

4 (8.9%)

 

582 (11.1%)

 

Smoking (e-cigarette) every day

 

 < .001

 

.411

 

.862

  

 Extremely/quite harmful

42 (30.4%)

 

26 (40.6%)

 

17 (47.2%)

 

2190 (45.8%)

 

 Not/slightly/moderately harmful

96 (69.6%)

 

38 (59.4%)

 

19 (52.8%)

 

2594 (54.2%)

 

Smoking (hashish/marijuana) every week

 

.034

 

.931

 

.205

 

a-c*

 Extremely/quite harmful

86 (59.3%)

 

45 (68.2%)

 

33 (76.7%)

 

3491 (67.7%)

 

 Not/slightly/moderately harmful

59 (40.7%)

 

21 (31.8%)

 

10 (23.3%)

 

1667 (32.3%)

 

Snuff use every week

 

.002

 

.277

 

.875

  

 Extremely/quite harmful

61 (41.5%)

 

33 (47.8%)

 

25 (55.6%)

 

2841 (54.4%)

 

 Not/slightly/moderately harmful

86 (58.5%)

 

36 (52.2%)

 

20 (44.4%)

 

2383 (45.6%)

 

Alcohol consumption every week

 

.693

 

.227

 

.063

 

b-c*

 Extremely/quite harmful

55 (37.9%)

 

22 (32.4%)

 

23 (53.5%)

 

2042 (39.6%)

 

 Not/slightly/moderately harmful

90 (62.1%)

 

46 (67.6%)

 

20 (46.5%)

 

3120 (60.4%)

 
  1. Abbreviations: ADHD Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ASD Autism spectrum disorder. Values are presented as absolute numbers (percentage of cases/controls). All p-values were calculated for each case group against the control group from Chi-squared test. * P < .05, ** P < .01 and *** P < .001. Case-groups comparisons column indicates between which case-groups were found statistically significant differences (a: ADHD, b: ASD, c: Co-occurrence), and its magnitude