TABLE 1.

Demographic Characteristics of Home Visit Study Patients and Their Parents

Characteristic	No. or Range (N = 92)	Percent
Subject child, female gender	39	42
Subject child’s insurance
Private	70	76
Public	22	24
Subject child’s cancer diagnosis
Leukemia	72	78
Lymphoma	8	9
Brain tumor	7	8
Other	5	5
Subject child’s age
Median	7 y	—
Range	14 mo–19 y
Person primarily responsible for administering medications
Mother	80	87
Father	5	5
Nurse	0	0
Aunts	1	1
Child (self-administration)	6	7
Parent’s race
Black	7	8
White	80	87
Asian/Pacific Islander	5	5
Parent’s ethnicity
Hispanic	11	12
Non-Hispanic	81	88
Parent’s highest educational level
No high school degree	3	3
High school diploma/GED	13	14
Some college, trade school, associate’s	23	25
Four-year college diploma	36	39
Advanced degree	17	19
Parent’s primary language
English	79	86
Spanish	6	7
Other	7	8
Parent’s S-TOFHLA score
Median	96	—
Range (low–high)	36–100
“How often do you need to have someone help you when you read instructions, pamphlets, or other written material from your doctor or pharmacy?”a
Never	62	70
Rarely	16	18
Sometimes	9	10
Often	1	1
Always	1	1
Support tools used at home to help in medication useb
Calendar	52	57
Pill box	27	29
Pill cutter/crusher	5	5
Alarm reminder	6	7
None	9	10

GED, general equivalency degree.

^aThree study subjects did not answer this question.

^bMore than 1 answer was accepted for this question.