Table 1.

Survey Response Rates by Parent and Child Characteristics

	Responders (n, %)	Nonresponders (n, %)	p
Parent gender
Male (n = 80)	37 (46.3)	43 (53.8)
Female (n = 179)	100 (55.9)	79 (44.1)	0.15
Race/ethnicity
White (n = 162)	94 (58.0)	68 (42.0)
Black (n = 40)	15 (37.5)	25 (62.5)
Hispanic (n = 41)	20 (48.8)	21 (51.2)
Other (n = 12)	7 (58.3)	5 (41.7)	0.12
Marital status
Married (n = 182)	110 (60.4)	72 (39.6)
Not married (n = 75)	26 (34.7)	49 (65.3)	< 0.001
Education
High school or less (n = 72)	34 (47.2)	38 (52.8)
Some college (n = 85)	43 (50.6)	42 (49.4)
College (n = 100)	59 (59.0)	41 (41.0)	0.27
Biological parent
Biological (n = 233)	118 (50.6)	115 (49.4)
Nonbiological (n = 26)	18 (69.2)	8 (30.8)	0.07
Number of other children
None (n = 39)	21 (53.8)	18 (46.2)
One (n = 84)	41 (48.8)	43 (51.2)
Two (n = 69)	36 (52.2)	33 (47.8)
Three or more (n = 65)	38 (58.5)	27 (41.5)	0.71
Child gender
Male (n = 139)	79 (56.8)	60 (43.2)
Female (n = 121)	59 (48.8)	62 (51.2)	0.19
Cause of death
Cardiac (n = 67)	37 (55.2)	30 (44.8)
Sepsis/multiple organ failure (n = 41)	21 (51.2)	20 (48.8)
Neurologic (n = 32)	17 (53.1)	15 (46.9)
Malignancy (n = 29)	18 (62.1)	11 (37.9)
Respiratory failure (n = 29)	17 (58.6)	12 (41.4)
Trauma (n = 17)	11 (64.7)	6 (35.3)
Other (n = 34)	12 (35.3)	22 (64.7)	0.35