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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 14.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2010 Dec 25;20(2):205–214. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9731-4

Table 1.

Subject demographic variables between Development and Composite samples

Respondent Demographic variables Child
Adolescent
Development Composite P-value Development Composite P-value
Patient Number of respondents 237 527 311 470
 The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 237 311
 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 155 129
 Children's Hospital Boston 97 103
 Children's Hospital of Wisconsin 114 63
 University of California San Francisco Children's Hospital 44 52
 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas 97 94
 Phoenix Children's Hospital 20 29
Age distribution by sample (%) 43.2 52.9 56.8 47.1
Gender (% male) 54.0 52.9 0.784 54.7 59.1 0.224
Race (% Caucasian) 84.2 85.7 0.587 87.3 85.7 0.521
Ethnicity (% non-Hispanic) 94.9 93.9 0.018 97.4 94.3 0.036
Age (years, mean) 10.0 9.8 0.071 15.2 15.2 0.694
Parent Number of respondents 247 547 318 471
 The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 247 318
 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 161 128
 Children's Hospital Boston 100 105
 Children's Hospital of Wisconsin 117 65
 University of California San Francisco Children's Hospital 49 51
 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas 100 93
 Phoenix Children's Hospital 20 29
Gender (% male) 13.2 14.2 0.700 14.2 20.2 0.027
Race (% Caucasian) 84.0 85.7 0.551 87.0 86.0 0.685
Ethnicity (% non-Hispanic) 98.0 94.0 0.014 97.2 94.5 0.072
Age (years, mean) 41.1 40.4 0.128 45.4 45.0 0.260
Annual household Income (% ≤$50,000) 20.9 25.7 0.153 22.3 26.2 0.230
Hollingshead SES score (mean) 45.6 46.5 0.404 46.2 45.5 0.474

A P value<0.008 was determined to be statistically significant

SES socioeconomic status