Sensory Behaviours and Resting Parasympathetic Functions among Children with and without ADHD

Table 1

Summary table of salient findings.

	TD	ADHD
Participant characteristics
n =	42	24
Age (yrs)	8.90 ± 1.52	9.40 ± 1.71
Gender	100% male	100% male
Primary caregiver	95% mother	86% mother
Educational attainment of the primary caregiver	84% college level	78% college level
Group differences in outcome variables
HF n.u.	60.16 ± 5.97	48.18 ± 5.98
Sensory profile total score	523 ± 49.16	356 ± 40.39
PEM-CY participation frequency	6.39 ± 0.70	6.18 ± 0.71
Correlation analysis
HF n.u. and total sensory profile score	r = 0.23	r = 0.36
HF n.u. and PEM-CY participation frequency	r = 0.28	r = 0.27

Note. TD = typically developing; HF n.u. = normalized high-frequency band of the heart rate variability; significant at ; significant at .