Effects of autism spectrum disorders on outcome in teenage-onset anorexia nervosa evaluated by the Morgan-Russell outcome assessment schedule: a controlled community-based study

Table 7 Morgan-Russell subscale E5 (employment record); dose–response analysis

Dose	AN study 2				AN study 3				AN study 4				Analysis for time trend doubly ordered r × c contingency tables Linear-by-linear association test	Exact Monte Carlo
	Response category				Response category				Response category				Test statistic	P (99% CI)
	0	4	8	12	0	4	8	12	0	4	8	12
Never ASD	3	3	4	24	4	1	2	27	7	2	6	19	−1.339	0.2 (0.19 to 0.21)
ASD × 1-3	3	1	0	6	0	1	4	5	5	1	0	4	−1.027	0.34 (0.33 to 0.36)
ASD × 4	3	0	0	3	4	1	0	1	4	0	1	1	−0.84	0.48 (0.46 to 0.49)
Dose–response analysis doubly ordered r × c tables	Linear-by-linear association test				Linear-by-linear association test				Linear-by-linear association test				Stratified r × c contingency tables Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test
Test statistic	−2				−3.22				−2.437				−4.385
Exact Monte Carlo P	0.048				0.002				0.013				0
99% CI	0.043 to 0.054				0.0008 to 0.003				0.01 to 0.016				0 to 0.0005

AN anorexia nervosa, AN study 2 second anorexia nervosa examination, AN study 3 third anorexia nervosa examination, AN study 4 fourth anorexia nervosa examination, ASD autism spectrum disorders, never ASD individuals who had never been assigned an ASD diagnosis, ASD × 1–3 those who had been assigned an ASD diagnosis in at least one study, but not at all four studies, ASD × 4 those with an ASD diagnosis at all four examinations, CI confidence interval, r × c rows and columns.

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