Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: The therapeutic role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in Egypt a randomized sham controlled clinical trial

	Group		Test of significance
	Sham (n=30)	rTMS (n=30)	Test of significance
	N (%) Mean ± SD	N (%) Mean ± SD	Value	p-value	Sig.
Sex
Male	22 (73.33%)	24 (80%)	X²= 0.373	0.542	NS
Female	8 (26.67%)	6 (20%)	X²= 0.373	0.542	NS
Diagnosis
ADHD hyperactive	5 (16.67%)	5 (16.67%)	X²= 1.049	0.592	NS
ADHD inattentive	4 (13.33%)	7 (23.33%)
ADHD combined	21 (70%)	18 (60%)
Age	8.47 ± 1.7	8.7 ± 1.76	t= -0.522	0.604	NS

Student’s t test of significance (t= Student’s t test value)
Chi-square test of significance (X²= chi-square test value)

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