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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Asthma. 2009 Jun;46(5):492–497. doi: 10.1080/02770900902866768

Table 4.

Impact of physician-investigator relationships: Initial parent/adolescent decisions and investigator/recommendation condition effect upon final participation decision.

Initial Decision
to Participate
(Concordance/Discordance)		 Maximum
Influence		 Minimal
Influence		 Odds Ratio (95%
Confidence
Interval)
Final Decision = Yes Final Decision = Yes Maximum Influence
Parent/adolescent
Concordance n = 73		 16/18 (89%) 50/55 (91%) 0.80 (0.1 – 4.5)
Parent/adolescent
Discordance n = 36		 08/10 (80%) 07/26 (27%) 10.9* (1.8 – 64.1)
Odds ratio
(95% confidence
interval) when initial
parent/adolescent concordance		 2.0
(0.2 – 16.9)		 27.1**
(7.7 – 96.1)
*

p = .02

**

p = .000