Table 1.
Description of recruitment and participants
| Pilot study | Validation study | |
| n (%) | n (%) | |
| Respondents | ||
| Recruitment source | ||
| Hospital specialist clinics | 339 (69.3) | 499 (44.8) |
| Refugee background communities | 86 (17.6) | 111 (10.0) |
| Aboriginal communities | 18 (3.7) | 71 (6.4) |
| Aboriginal mother–child cohort | 46 (9.4) | 165 (14.8) |
| General population mother–child cohort | 268 (24.1) | |
| Questionnaire format | ||
| Paper | 489 (100) | 271 (24.3) |
| iPad | 588 (52.8) | |
| Online (REDCap) | 255 (22.9) | |
| Self-reported gender | ||
| Female | 391 (81.6) | 938 (84.7) |
| Male | 88 (18.4) | 170 (15.3) |
| Continent of birth | ||
| Australia | 330 (69.0) | 807 (72.7) |
| Asia | 97 (20.3) | 199 (17.9) |
| Europe | 22 (4.6) | 54 (4.9) |
| Africa | 25 (5.2) | 35 (3.2) |
| North America | 2 (0.4) | 9 (0.8) |
| South America | 2 (0.4) | 6 (0.5) |
| CRQ-P/C Target child | ||
| Australian born | ||
| Yes | 244 (76.5) | 988 (89.2) |
| No | 75 (23.5) | 120 (10.8) |
| Child gender | ||
| Female | 439 (47.2) | |
| Male | 491 (52.8) | |
| Age mean (SD) | 9.7 (1.6) | 9.1 (2.3) |
| 5–6 years | 6 (1.8) | 230 (20.8) |
| 7–8 years | 86 (25.2) | 225 (20.3) |
| 9–10 years | 132 (38.7) | 240 (21.7) |
| 11–12 years | 111 (32.6) | 410 (37) |
| 13 years | 6 (1.8) | 3 (0.3) |
| Aboriginal &/or Torres Strait Islander | 67 (13.7) | 247 (22.3) |
| Community (refugee background families) | ||
| Assyrian Chaldean (Iraq, Syria) | 30 (34.9) | 29 (26.1) |
| Karen (Burma, Thailand) | 25 (29.1) | 30 (27.0) |
| Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone) | 16 (18.6) | 22 (19.8) |
| Tamil (Sri Lanka) | 15 (17.4) | – |
| Hazara (Afghanistan) | – | 30 (27.0) |
| Years in Australia (refugee background families) | ||
| Born in Australia | 15 (25.0) | 33 (31.1) |
| 1–2 years | 10 (16.7) | 33 (31.1) |
| 3–5 years | 16 (26.7) | 21 (19.8) |
| 6+ years | 19 (31.6) | 19 (17.9) |
| Total | 489 (100) | 1114 (100) |
CRQ-P/C, Child Resilience Questionnaire (parent/caregiver report).