. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2007 Jul 23;68(2):179–185. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2007.06.003

Table 1.

Description of the sample of children with psychosocial problems (N=804)

Characteristic	N (%) / Mean (SD)
Average age	8.8 (3.2)
Child is male	528 (65.7%)
Child is white	674 (83.8%)
Child's health is fair or poor	54 (6.7%)
Parents are married and living together	306 (38.1%)
Highest level of parent education
High school diploma or less	195 (24.3%)
Some college or college/technical degree	455 (56.6%)
Graduate/professional degree	154 (19.1%)