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Table 2 Child and family characteristics associated with (dis)agreement between CHP and parents on psychosocial problems in 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

 

CHP-parent agree on child having no problems %n, n = 2,086

Parents have concerns but CHP identifies no problems %n, n = 1,107

Parents have no concerns, CHP identifies problems %n, n = 302

Parents and CHP agree that child has problems % n, n = 375

Total sample

53.9

28.6

7.8

9.7

Child: CBCL/ITSEA problem score

***

   

 No clinical score

99.1

93.0

95.7

80.8

 Clinical score

0.9

7.0

4.3

19.2

Child: history of problems

***

   

 No

92.4

86.1

65.2

49.1

 Yes

7.6

13.9

34.8

50.9

Environmental: Life events

***

   

 No

91.4

86.9

84.1

84.3

 Yes

8.6

13.1

15.9

15.7

Parenting: Parenting efficacy

***

   

 Higher efficacy

83.0

71.5

78.5

59.7

 Lower efficacy

17.0

28.5

21.5

40.3

Gender

**

   

 Girl

53.0

52.0

45.7

42.7

 Boy

47.0

48.0

54.3

57.3

Ethnicity

    

 Industrialized country

81.7

82.5

77.2

78.7

 Non-Industrialized country

18.3

17.5

22.8

21.3

Age

***

   

 14 months

19.6

22.8

7.9

10.9

 3 years 9 months

16.9

22.9

12.3

16.5

 5/6 years

31.4

31.3

48.7

47.7

 8–12 years

32.1

23.1

31.1

24.8

Educational level

**

   

 Low

38.1

33.3

47.7

43.2

 Average

36.0

37.8

30.8

35.5

 High

24.2

27.2

19.5

20.0

 Unknown

1.7

1.7

2.0

1.3

CHP’s use of screening instruments

**

   

 Never

83.6

84.5

79.1

78.7

 When indicated

11.1

10.9

11.3

13.3

 At each assessment

5.4

4.6

9.6

8.0

Combination child, parenting, environmental stressors

***

   

 Not in child and parenting/context

71.8

53.7

46.0

24.8

 Not in child but in parenting/context

19.8

27.1

16.6

16.0

 In child, but not in parenting/context

5.4

9.8

23.5

26.9

 Both in child and parenting/context

3.1

9.5

13.9

32.3

  1. *Differences in child and family characteristics between categories of agreement between CHP and parents the child:* = p < 0.05; ** = p < 0.01, *** = p < 0.001