Table I.
Sample Characteristics
| Variable | Categories | Wave 1 |
Wave 2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Form A (n = 700) |
Form B (n = 700) |
n = 1057 |
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| n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | ||
| Sex (parent) | Male | 169 | (24.1) | 120 | (17.1) | 330 | (31.2) |
| Female | 531 | (75.9) | 580 | (82.9) | 727 | (68.8) | |
| Hispanic | Yes | 133 | (19.0) | 135 | (19.3) | 163 | (15.4) |
| Sex (child) | Male | 366 | (52.3) | 348 | (49.7) | 526 | (49.8) |
| Female | 334 | (47.7) | 352 | (50.3) | 528 | (50.0) | |
| Race (child) | White | 511 | (73.0) | 499 | (71.3) | 841 | (79.6) |
| Black or African American | 85 | (12.1) | 97 | (13.9) | 70 | (6.6) | |
| Asian American | 22 | (3.1) | 20 | (2.9) | 36 | (3.4) | |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 10 | (1.4) | 5 | (0.7) | 4 | (0.4) | |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 3 | (0.4) | 4 | (0.6) | 0 | (0) | |
| Multiracial | 58 | (8.3) | 65 | (9.3) | 86 | (8.1) | |
| Not reported | 11 | (1.6) | 10 | (1.4) | 20 | (1.9) | |
| Health condition | No physical health condition | 428 | (61.1) | 456 | (65.1) | 793 | (75.0) |
| No emotional/behavioral/developmental health conditions | 504 | (72.0) | 556 | (79.4) | 927 | (87.7) | |
| Allergies | 182 | (26.0) | 149 | (21.3) | 136 | (12.9) | |
| Asthma | 74 | (10.6) | 70 | (10.0) | 29 | (2.7) | |
| Blindness or problems with seeing, even when wearing glasses | 11 | (1.6) | 8 | (1.1) | 19 | (1.8) | |
| Anxiety problems | 48 | (6.9) | 32 | (4.6) | 12 | (1.1) | |
| Attention deficit disorder | 83 | (11.9) | 53 | (7.6) | 14 | (1.3) | |
| Behavioral or conduct problems | 49 | (7.0) | 27 | (3.9) | 9 | (0.9) | |
| Developmental delay | 43 | (6.1) | 36 | (5.1) | 34 | (3.2) | |
| Speech or other language disorder | 48 | (6.9) | 47 | (6.7) | 68 | (6.4) | |