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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 16.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2014 Apr 16;34(5):590–602. doi: 10.1177/0272989X14529846

Table 2.

Subject characteristics (N=908)

Characteristics Category Mean (SD) or N (%)
Child age - 9.9 (5.1/2–19)
Parent/guardian age - 39.9 (11.9/20–83)
Child gender Male 47.6
Female 52.4
Child race/ethnicity White 42.3
Black 28.4
Hispanic 14.4
Other 14.9
Don’t know/refused 0.4
Parent race/ethnicity White 47.7
Black 27.4
Hispanic 13.6
Other 11.3
Don’t know/refused 0.3
Parent education Less than HS 23.8
GED/HS* degree 39.0
Vocational/some college/AA degree 28.5
College graduate 6.2
Graduate degree 2.4
Marital status Married 40.2
Single 32.5
Other 27.4
Family income <$9,999 28.2
$10,000 – $19,999 32.6
$20,000+ 33.3
Don’t know/refused 6.0
CSHCN Yes 36.7
No 63.3
*

General Educational Development test/High school

Associate of Arts degree