Table 2.
Frequencies and percentages of parent-reported demographic characteristics of adolescents with congenital heart defects (CHD) overall and by site, Georgia and New York
| Combined (N = 451) | Georgia (GA) n = 274 (60.7%) |
New York (NY) n = 177 (39.3%) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adolescent characteristics | ||||
| Sex | 0.0640 | |||
| Male | 248 (55.1) | 160 (58.6) | 88 (49.7) | |
| Female | 202 (44.9) | 113 (41.4) | 89 (50.3) | |
| Missing | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Race | 0.4102 | |||
| White | 316 (72.8) | 185 (70.9) | 131 (75.7) | |
| Black | 81 (18.7) | 54 (20.7) | 27 (15.6) | |
| Other/mixed race | 37 (8.5) | 22 (8.4) | 15 (8.7) | |
| Missing | 17 | 13 | 4 | |
| Ethnicity | 0.0445 | |||
| Not Hispanic | 407 (92.3) | 251 (94.4) | 156 (89.1) | |
| Hispanic | 34 (7.7) | 15 (5.6) | 19 (10.9) | |
| Missing | 10 | 8 | 2 | |
| Age (years) | 0.1046 | |||
| 11–12 | 59 (13.1) | 43 (15.7) | 16 (9.0) | |
| 13–14 | 130 (28.8) | 74 (27.0) | 56 (31.6) | |
| 15–19 | 262 (58.1) | 157 (57.3) | 105 (59.3) | |
| CHD severity | 0.1161 | |||
| Non-severe | 255 (56.5) | 163 (59.5) | 92 (52.0) | |
| Severe | 196 (43.5) | 111 (40.5) | 85 (48.0) | |
| Insurance | 0.0070 | |||
| Private only | 214 (49.4) | 134 (49.1) | 80 (50.0) | |
| Any public | 203 (46.9) | 123 (45.1) | 80 (50.0) | |
| Selfpay/uninsured | 16 (3.7) | 16 (5.9) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Missing | 18 | 1 | 17 | |
| Last saw health care provider | 0.0616 | |||
| Within past 6 months | 384 (86.7) | 244 (89.1) | 140 (82.8) | |
| > 6 months ago | 59 (13.3) | 30 (10.9) | 29 (17.2) | |
| Missing | 8 | 0 | 8 | |
| Last saw cardiologist | < 0.0001 | |||
| Within past 6 months | 274 (61.7) | 200 (73.3) | 74 (43.3) | |
| > 6 months ago | 170 (38.3) | 73 (26.7) | 97 (56.7) | |
| Missing | 7 | 1 | 6 | |
| Parent characteristic | ||||
| Education | 0.6344 | |||
| High school or less | 85 (19.0) | 49 (17.9) | 36 (20.9) | |
| Some college/assoc./trade | 147 (33.0) | 94 (34.3) | 53 (30.8) | |
| College or higher | 214 (48.0) | 131 (47.8) | 83 (48.3) | |
| Missing | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Sample includes consented parents of adolescents with a congenital heart defect between ages 11 and 19 years. P values for X2 comparison between the two study sites and do not include missing data; bolded P values are significant. All measures are for adolescents, except parental education