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Table 1 Characteristics of participating clinics, clinicians, and youth by condition

From: Improving measurement-based care implementation in youth mental health through organizational leadership and climate: a mechanistic analysis within a randomized trial

Characteristic

LOCI

Control

Total

p-value

Clinic characteristic

 No

11

10

21

 

State, n (%)

   

0.926

 Idaho

7 (63.6)

7 (70.0)

14 (66.7)

 

 Oregon

3 (27.3)

2 (20.0)

5 (23.8)

 

 Nevada

1 (9.1)

1 (10.0)

2 (9.5)

 

Legal status, n (%)

   

0.465

 Non-profit

5 (45.5)

3 (30.0)

8 (38.1)

 

 For-profit

6 (54.6)

7 (70.0)

13 (61.9)

 

Implementing clinic-wide EBP at baseline, n (%)

   

0.653

 Yes

5 (50.0)

6 (60.0)

11 (55.0)

 

 No

5 (50.0)

4 (40.0)

9 (45.0)

 

FTE clinicians working with youth, M (SD)

10.1 (1.84)

8.0 (1.53)

9.1 (5.51)

0.393

Number of youths served (prior year), M (SD)

433.1 (89.9)

337.2 (52.6)

387.4 (343.5)

0.381

% revenue Medicaid, M (SD)

55.6 (8.21)

59.7 (9.52)

57.6 (27.4)

0.750

Clinician characteristic

 No

151

101

252

 

Age in years, M (SD)

37.7 (0.8)

39.9 (1.1)

38.6 (0.7)

0.212

Years of clinical experience, M (SD)

5.46 (0.4)

6.37 (0.7)

5.83 (0.4)

0.339

Tenure at the organization, M (SD)

3.0 (0.3)

2.43 (0.3)

2.79 (0.2)

0.497

Exposure to MBC in graduate school, M (SD)

1.39 (0.1)

1.50 (0.1)

1.44 (0.1

0.406

Prior experience with MBC, M (SD)

1.53 (0.1)

1.71 (0.1)

1.6 (0.1)

0.307

Sex, n (%)

   

0.642

 Male

26 (17.6)

19 (19.0)

45 (18.2)

 

 Female

119 (98.0)

78 (78.0)

197 (79.4)

 

 Prefer to self-describe

3 (2.0)

3 (3.0)

6 (2.4)

 

Race, n (%)

   

0.060

 American Indian or Alaskan Native

-

-

-

 

 Asian

4 (2.7)

1 (1.0)

5 (1.9)

 

 Black or African American

3 (2.0)

2 (2.0)

5 (1.9)

 

 Multiracial

2 (1.3)

-

2 (0.8)

 

 Pacific Islander or Hawaiian Native

2 (1.3)

-

2 (0.8)

 

 Prefer not to disclose

13 (8.6)

7 (7.0)

20 (7.9)

 

 Prefer to self-describe

9 (6.0)

4 (4.0)

13 (5.2)

 

 White

118 (78.2)

87 (86.1)

205 (81.4)

 

Ethnicity, n (%)

   

0.236

 Hispanic/Latinx

21 (14.3)

9 (9.0)

30 (12.2)

 

Child/family characteristic

 No

117

114

231

 

Child

 Age in years, M (SD)

11.3 (1.2)

12.1 (0.37)

11.7 (3.8)

0.501

Sex, n (%)

   

0.786

 Male

54 (46.2)

52 (45.6)

106 (45.9)

 

 Female

62 (52.9)

62 (54.4)

124 (53.7)

 

 Prefer to not disclose

1 (0.9)

-

1 (0.4)

 

Race, n (%)

   

0.373

 American Indian or Alaskan Native

1 (0.9)

2 (1.8)

3 (1.3)

 

 Asian

1 (0.9)

1 (0.9)

2 (0.9)

 

 Black or African American

1 (0.9)

2 (1.8)

3 (1.3)

 

 Multiracial

10 (8.6)

6 (5.3)

16 (6.9)

 

 Pacific Islander or Hawaiian Native

-

-

-

 

 Prefer to self-describe

3 (2.6)

2 (1.8)

5 (2.2)

 

 White

98 (83.8)

100 (87.7)

198 (85.7)

 

Ethnicity, n (%)

   

0.402

 Hispanic/Latinx

21 (17.9)

14 (12.3)

35 (15.2)

 

 Received prior mental health services, n (%)

66 (56.4)

55 (48.3)

121 (52.4)

0.469

Family income, n (%)

   

0.965

 Less than US $25,750

27 (23.1)

19 (16.7)

46 (19.9)

 

 US $25,751 to US $35,535

19 (16.2)

17 (14.9)

36 (15.6)

 

 US $35,536 to US $51,500

19 (16.2)

19 (16.7)

38 (16.5)

 

 More than US $51,500

52 (44.4)

59 (51.8)

111 (48.1)

 

Parent highest education level, n (%)

   

0.998

 High school graduate/GED or less

24 (20.5)

22 (19.3)

46 (19.9)

 

 Associate’s degree or some college

48 (41.0)

39 (34.2)

87 (37.7)

 

 Bachelor’s degree

26 (22.2)

28 (24.6)

54 (23.4)

 

 Graduate degree

18 (15.4)

24 (21.1)

42 (18.2)

 

 Baseline SAC total problem score, M (SD)

37.1 (1.2)

33.9 (1.2)

35.6 (0.9)

0.212

 Number of sessions, M (SD)

10 (0.7)

10.9 (0.9)

10.4 (0.7)

0.589

  1. To accommodate the nesting of clinicians and youths within clinics as well as multiple testing, p-values were generated using a bootstrap alpha on the basis of 500 resamples with replacement. GED, general education degree; LOCI, Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation strategy; M, mean; SAC, Shortform Assessment for Children; SD, standard deviation