Table 2.

Demographics of Respondents and Their Deceased Children

Relationship to child
Mother	83% (N = 10)
Father	17% (N = 2)
Ethnicity
Caucasian	50% (N = 6)
African American	17% (N = 2)
Hispanic	33% (N = 4)
Marital status
Married	50% (N = 6)
Not married	50% (N = 6)
Religion
Christian	58.3% (N = 7)
No religion listed	41.7% (N = 5)
Average amount of time since child's death (days)	228 (range 105–411)
Average age of child at time of death	7 Years (range 8 days–16 years)
Proposed cause of death
Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy	9% (N = 1)
Sepsis	18% (N = 2)
Status asthmaticus	9% (N = 1)
Status epilepticus	9% (N = 1)
Leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor	9% (N = 1)
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia	9% (N = 1)
Graft versus host disease (IPEX syndrome underlying disease)	9% (N = 1)
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome	18% (N = 2)
Epidermolysis bullosa	9% (N = 1)