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Table 1 Child and family characteristics associated with CHP-identified psychosocial problems and parental concerns among children aged 0–12 years

From: When do parents and child health professionals agree on child’s psychosocial problems? Cross-sectional study on parent–child health professional dyads

 

Total

CHP identified psychosocial problems

Parental concerns

 

% n, n = 3,870

No % n, n = 3,193

Yes % n, n = 677

No % n, n = 2,388

Yes % n, n = 1,482

Total Sample

 

82.5

17.5

61.7

38.3

Child: CBCL/ITSEA problem score

  

***

 

***

 No clinical score

95.3

97.0

87.4

98.7

89.9

 Clinical score

4.7

3.0

12.6

1.3

10.1

Child: history of problems

  

***

 

***

 No

84.3

90.2

56.3

88.9

76.7

 Yes

15.7

9.8

43.7

11.1

23.3

Environmental: Life events

  

**

 

***

 No

88.9

89.9

84.2

90.5

86.2

 Yes

11.1

10.1

15.8

9.5

13.8

Parenting: Parenting efficacy

  

***

 

***

 Efficacy

77.1

79.0

68.1

82.5

68.5

 Low efficacy

22.9

21.0

31.9

17.5

31.5

Gender

  

***

  

 Girl

51.1

52.6

44.0

52.0

49.7

 Boy

48.9

47.4

56.0

48.0

50.3

Ethnicity

  

*

  

 Industrialized country

81.3

82.0

78.0

79.9

80.5

 Non-Industrialized country

19.7

18.0

22.0

20.1

19.4

Age

  

***

 

***

 14 months

18.8

20.7

9.6

18.1

19.8

 3 years 9 months

18.2

18.9

14.6

16.3

21.3

 5/6 years

34.3

31.3

48.2

33.6

35.4

 8–12 years

28.8

29.0

27.6

32.0

23.5

Educational level

  

***

  

 Low

38.0

36.5

45.2

39.3

35.8

 Average

36.0

36.5

33.4

35.3

37.2

 High

24.3

25.2

19.8

23.6

25.4

 Unknown

1.7

1.7

1.6

1.7

1.6

CHP’s use of screening instruments

  

***

 

***

 Never

83.0

83.9

78.9

83.0

83.0

 When indicated

11,3

11.0

12.4

11.1

11.5

 At each assessment

5.7

5.1

8.7

5.9

5.5

Combination child, parenting, environmental stressors

  

***

 

***

 Not in child and parenting/context

60.1

65.5

34.3

68.6

46.4

 Not in child but in parenting/context

21.2

22.3

16.2

19.3

24.3

 In child, but not in parenting/context

10.1

6.9

25.4

7.7

14.1

 Both in child and parenting/context

8.6

5.3

24.1

4.4

15.2

  1. *Differences in child and family characteristics between children with and without CHP-identified psychosocial problems and between parents with and without concerns regarding development of the child:* = p < 0.05; ** = p < 0.01, *** = p < 0.001