Comparison of caregivers’ characteristics, stigma, and disease burden of children with autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit disorder in Egypt

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 5 Results of a simple regression analysis of affiliate stigma in predicting depression, anxiety, sensitivity, and quality of life in caregivers of ADHD and ASD children

Variables dependent	Predict variables	Constant	R	R²	F	B	Beta	T	Sig
Affiliate stigma	Depression	.359	.367	.135	10.924	.025	.367	3.305	.001
	Anxiety	.122	.369	.136	11.018	.023	.369	3.319	.001
	Sensitivity	.261	.515	.265	25.263	.035	.515	5.026	.000
	Quality of life	88.079	.386	.149	12.245	.541	.386	3.499	.001

Independent variables are depression, anxiety, sensitivity, and quality of life, while dependent variables are affiliate stigma
ADHD attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, ASD autism spectrum disorder