From: Effect of child health status on parents’ allowing children to participate in pediatric research
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | P1 | |
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Healthy children | Ambulant sick children | Non ambulant sick children | ||
N (%) | 48.3 | 37.9 | 13.8 | |
Age of participating parent (mean year ± SD) | 42.1 ± 6.2 | 39.3 ± 5.1 | 38.5 ± 3.7 | 0.91* |
Age of child (mean year ± SD) | 12.3 ± 1.9 | 9.8 ± 3.4 | 10.1 ± 3.5 | 0.82* |
Gender of participating parent (%) | ||||
Mother | 82 | 93 | 90 | 0.80** |
Father | 18 | 7 | 10 | |
Parental education level (%) | ||||
Lower | 32 | 31 | 49 | |
Medium | 29 | 47 | 29 | 0.004** |
High | 39 | 22 | 22 | |
Children having previously participate to a study (%) | 10 | 25 | 26 | 0.83** |
Children having already heard about clinical research study (%) | 52 | 79 | 87 | 0.002** |