Table 1.

Infant and parent characteristics

	n (%) or mean (SD)
Infant characteristics (n=144)
Sex, female	59 (41)
Term (≥37 weeks)	119 (83)
Length of stay, days	26 (27)
Primary diagnosis
Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy	55 (38)
Ischaemic stroke	41 (29)
Intracranial haemorrhage	31 (22)
CNS infection	8 (6)
Other	9 (6)
Medical comorbidities
Congenital heart disease	16 (11)
ECMO	7 (5)
Discharged home with gastrostomy tube	15 (10)
Parent characteristics (n=144)
Gender, female*	111 (77)
Race
White	85 (59)
Black/African-American	13 (9)
Asian	11 (8)
American Indian/Alaskan Native	2 (1)
Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander	2 (1)
Mixed race	5 (4)
Other	19 (13)
Unknown/Not reported/Declined to answer	7 (5)
Ethnicity
Hispanic or Latino	27 (19)
Not Hispanic or Latino	112 (78)
Unknown/Not reported/Declined to answer	5 (3)

^*One parent did not report the gender.

CNS, central nervous system; ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.