Table 1.

Characteristics of Parents and Children, Including Prior Care and Treatment (N = 95)

	Full Cohort (% Unless Otherwise Specified)	White	Minority
Parent Characteristics	N = 95	N = 55	N = 40	P
Parent gender				0.42
Female	81	84	77
Male	19	16	23
Parent education				0.65
Higher than high school graduate	82	84	80
High school graduate or lesser	18	16	20
Parent race/ethnicity				N/A
White	58	100	0
Black	8	0	20
Hispanic	23	0	55
Other	11	0	25
Study site				0.09
Boston Children’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	22	25	18
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles	18	16	20
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	20	24	15
Columbia University Medical Center	3	2	5
Cook Children’s	7	5	10
Seattle Children’s Research Institute	6	7	5
St Jude Children’s Research Center	6	7	5
Stanford/Packard Children’s Hospital	9	2	20
University of Chicago	7	11	3
Religious coping
Greater use of religious coping	49	35	68	0.002
Lesser use of religious coping	51	65	33
Child Characteristics
Child gender				0.67
Female	40	42	38
Male	60	58	63
Child age at time of parent enrollment (yrs)	Mean 6.4; median 6 (SD 3.1)	Mean 6.7; median 7 (SD 2.7)	Mean 6.1; median 5 (SD 3.6)	0.35
Care and Treatment Characteristics				0.02
Neuroblastoma status
Recurrent	77	85	65
Refractory to initial therapy	23	15	35
Number of prior chemotherapeutic regimens	Mean 3.5; median 3 (SD 2.2)	Mean 3.6; median 4 (SD 2.5)	Mean 3.3; median 3 (SD 1.8)	0.37

N/A = not available.

P-values indicate Chi-squared tests comparing proportions who are white (white non-Hispanic) Vs. minority (nonwhite or Hispanic); t-tests were used for continuous variables.