Table 1.
Participant data
| All parents n = 244 |
ASD parents n = 131 |
DD parents n = 39 |
TD parents n = 74 |
p Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parent age, years (SD) | 34.7 (7.97) | 35.6 (8.38) | 33.1 (7.29) | 34.0 (7.44) | 0.14 |
| Parent sex, # female (%) | 212 (86.9) | 112 (85.5) | 33 (84.6) | 67 (90.5) | 0.53 |
| Race | |||||
| Caucasian, # (%) | 186 (76.2) | 96 (73.3) | 29 (74.4) | 61 (82.4) | 0.32 |
| African American, # (%) | 3 (1.2) | 2 (1.5) | 1 (2.6) | 0 | 0.46 |
| Asian, # (%) | 2 (0.8) | 2 (1.5) | 0 | 0 | 0.42 |
| Other, # (%) | 2 (0.8) | 2 (1.5) | 0 | 0 | 0.42 |
| Unknown, # (%) | 51 (21.0) | 29 (22.2) | 9 (23.0) | 13 (17.6) | |
| Ethnicity, # (% Hispanic) | 18 (7.4) | 13 (9.9) | 2 (5.1) | 3 (4.1) | 0.26 |
| Education | |||||
| Less than high school, # (%) | 13 (5.3) | 10 (7.6) | 1 (2.6) | 2 (2.7) | 0.23 |
| High school diploma, # (%) | 44 (18.0) | 19 (14.5) | 9 (23.1) | 16 (21.6) | 0.30 |
| Some college, # (%) | 44 (18.0) | 23 (17.6) | 9 (23.1) | 12 (16.2) | 0.66 |
| College diploma, # (%) | 70 (28.7) | 36 (27.5) | 13 (33.3) | 21 (28.4) | 0.78 |
| Graduate degree, # (%) | 69 (28.3) | 39 (29.8) | 7 (17.9) | 23 (31.1) | 0.29 |
| Unknown, # (%) | 4 (1.7) | 4 (3.0) | 0 | 0 | |