Table 3.

Selected Participant Demographics

Parent Characteristics	N = 46
Race
White	34 (74%)
Asian	2 (4%)
Black	1 (2%)
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	1 (2%)
Not reported	8 (18%)
Hispanic Ethnicity	17(37%)
Education
High school	7 (15%)
College	30 (65%)
Graduate school	9 (20%)
Occupation
Service/Technical	25 (54%)
Professional/Manager	10 (22%)
Homemaker	6 (13%)
Not given	5 (11%)
Characteristics of the parents’ hospitalized newborns
Inborn	34 (74%)
Expected Admission	28 (62%)
Diagnosis
Prematurity	16 (35%)
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia	8 (17%)
Cardiac defect	6 (13%)
Gestational age at birth (weeks)	34.4 (±4.3)
Length of stay at enrollment (days)	32.7 (±19.5)

From Parents’ perspectives on safety in neonatal intensive care: a mixed-methods study. A. Lyndon, C. H. Jacobson, K. M. Fagan, K. Wisner, and L.S. Franck, BMJ Quality and Safety, 23 (11), 902–9, 2014. Adapted with permission from BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.