Table 2.
Parent and patient demographics (N=1599)
| Higher intensity | Lower intensity | |
| Gender of parent | ||
| Female | 584 (83.9%) | 764 (84.6%) |
| Ethnicity of parent | ||
| Hispanic | 129 (18.5%) | 171 (18.9%) |
| Race of parent | ||
| Asian | 13 (1.9%) | 10 (1.1%) |
| Black | 90 (12.9%) | 104 (11.5%) |
| White | 537 (77.2%) | 721 (79.8%) |
| Multiracial | 15 (2.2%) | 24 (2.7%) |
| Other | 10 (1.4%) | 13 (1.4%) |
| Chose not to answer | 31 (4.5%) | 31 (3.4%) |
| Preferred language | ||
| Spanish | 41 (5.9%) | 60 (6.6%) |
| Education | ||
| Less than high school | 38 (5.5%) | 49 (5.4%) |
| High school degree or GED | 151 (21.7%) | 183 (20.3%) |
| Some college | 228 (32.8%) | 335 (37.1%) |
| Secondary degree | 196 (28.2%) | 240 (26.6%) |
| Postsecondary degree | 79 (11.4%) | 94 (10.4%) |
| Other/unknown | 4 (0.6%) | 2 (0.2%) |
| Patient age | ||
| 1 | 249 (35.8%) | 307 (34.0%) |
| 2 | 126 (18.1%) | 172 (19.0%) |
| 3 | 104 (14.9%) | 145 (16.1%) |
| 4 | 96 (13.8%) | 136 (15.1%) |
| 5 | 121 (17.4%) | 143 (15.8%) |
| Patient sex | ||
| Female | 327 (47.1%) | 414 (45.9%) |
| Male | 367 (52.9%) | 488 (54.1%) |
| Patient diagnosis | ||
| Viral URI/pharyngitis/OME | 352 (50.6%) | 440 (48.7%) |
| Strep throat | 20 (2.9%) | 16 (1.8%) |
| AOM | 126 (18.1%) | 162 (17.9%) |
| Sinusitis | 2 (0.3%) | 4 (0.4%) |
| Pneumonia | 6 (0.9%) | 13 (1.4%) |
| Multiple or other diagnosis | 190 (27.3%) | 268 (29.7%) |
AOM, acute otitis media; GED, General Educational Development Test; OME, otitis media with effusion; URI, upper respiratory infection.