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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: Child Care Health Dev. 2013 Jul;39(4):490–499. doi: 10.1111/cch.12045

Table 2.

Parent Perceptions of Participation Difficulty in Community Activities According to Child-Related Factors

Child Factors N Neighborhood Outings (%)
Community-sponsored Activities (%)
Recreation & Leisure (%)
Mall/store Grocery Restaurant Movie Event Worship Library Vacation Park
Total 1,509 13.5 10.5 11.1 13.9 27.5 11.7 11.4 10.0 4.8
Age * *
 56–65 months 523 11.3 8.8 8.8 10.5 25.2 9.0 10.3 8.6 3.1
 66–78 months 943 14.2 10.7 11.8 15.3 28.6 12.8 11.6 10.3 5.7
 79–86 months 43 25.6 25.6 23.3 25.6 30.2 20.9 20.9 20.9 4.7
Gender
 Male 934 13.6 10.9 11.2 14.2 28.1 13.0 12.3 10.7 5.0
 Female 575 13.4 9.7 10.8 13.4 26.6 9.7 9.9 8.9 4.3
Race/ethnicity *
 White 905 12.4 9.3 10.2 12.6 21.1 10.6 9.7 9.2 3.5
 Black 238 13.4 11.8 10.1 12.2 31.1 12.2 15.1 12.6 8.0
 Hispanic 235 19.1 14.5 15.7 17.9 46.4 15.3 15.7 11.1 6.4
 Other 129 11.6 9.3 10.9 19.4 31.0 12.4 8.5 9.3 4.7
Eligibility
 Delay 960 14.5 11.6 12.3 13.4 28.3 12.1 11.8 10.3 4.5
 Diagnosis 320 12.2 10.3 9.4 15.3 25.3 10.9 12.8 9.7 6.3
 At risk 229 11.4 6.1 8.3 14.0 27.1 11.4 7.9 9.2 3.9
Move Arms/hands * * * * * * *
 Not well 274 23.0 17.9 14.6 21.9 28.1 17.5 18.2 17.5 8.0
 Well 1,235 11.4 8.8 10.3 12.1 27.4 10.4 9.9 8.3 4.0
Move Legs/feet * * * * * * * *
 Not well 261 26.1 21.8 19.5 24.5 32.6 19.5 18.8 20.3 11.5
 Well 1,248 10.9 8.1 9.3 11.7 26.4 10.1 9.9 7.9 3.4
Speech * * * * * * * * *
 Very easy 620 7.7 4.8 6.1 6.6 25.8 6.8 6.8 6.8 3.5
 Fairly easy 456 11.4 9.9 10.7 12.3 23.5 11.4 9.4 9.4 3.5
 Not easy 433 24.0 19.2 18.5 26.1 34.2 19.2 20.1 15.2 7.9
Spoon * * * * * * * * *
 Not well 208 29.3 25.0 26.9 35.6 46.2 28.4 27.4 25.0 12.5
 Well 1,301 11.0 8.1 8.5 10.5 24.5 9.1 8.8 7.6 3.5
Cup * * * * * * * * *
 Not well 66 34.8 33.3 33.3 47.0 43.9 30.3 25.8 28.8 13.6
 Well 1,443 12.5 9.4 10.0 12.4 26.7 10.9 10.7 9.1 4.4
Bladder * * * * * * * *
 Not well 160 35.0 31.9 34.4 40.0 36.3 33.1 30.6 28.1 16.9
 Well 1,349 11.0 7.9 8.3 10.8 26.5 9.2 9.1 7.9 3.3
Bowel * * * * * * * * *
 Not well 158 36.1 31.6 33.5 39.2 40.5 32.9 28.5 25.9 15.2
 Well 1,351 10.9 8.0 8.4 11.0 26.0 9.3 9.4 8.1 3.6
Avoids Danger * * * * * * * * *
Not well 315 35.9 28.6 29.8 34.3 40.6 33.0 30.5 25.4 10.2
Well 1,194 7.6 5.7 6.1 8.5 24.0 6.1 6.4 5.9 3.4
Friendships * * * * * * * * *
 No Trouble 381 29.1 21.8 25.7 31.5 39.9 28.1 28.3 21.8 10.0
Has trouble 1,128 8.2 6.6 6.1 8.0 23.3 6.2 5.7 6.0 3.0

Cell values are row percentages showing the proportion of respondents who reported yes to experiencing difficulty with the specified community activity.

*

indicates p < .0069, which is the significance threshold obtained from adjusting for the false discovery rate across all comparisons in Tables 24 with an initial alpha = .01.

Bold indicates |standardized residual| > 2.