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Table 1 Description of patients and parent characteristics

From: What factors influence parents’ perception of the quality of life of children and adolescents with neurocardiogenic syncope?

Number of parent–child participants

125

Normal range

Parent

  

Sex

  

 Mothers

113 (90 %)

 

 Fathers

12 (10 %)

 

Stress Index

  

 PD

26.43 (SD = 9.96)

26.28 (SD = 7.63)

 DC

26.22 (SD = 9.18)

23.40 (SD = 7.17)

 P-CDI

23.26 (SD = 8.55)

20.03 (SD = 6.11)

 Total PS

75.37 (SD = 22.67)

69.70 (SD = 17.38)

Patients

  

Mean age (SD)

12.75 (2.73)

 

 Child

63 (52 %)

 

 Adolescent

62 (48 %)

 

Sex

  

 Female

48 %

 

 Male

52 %

 

Recurrent syncope

92 (73.6 %)

 

CBCL

  

 Externalizing

8.76 (SD = 6.35)

7.64 (SD = 5.80)

 Internalizing

11.52 (SD = 8.09)

6.96 (SD = 5.53)

  1. SD standard deviation; NCS neurocardiogenetic syndrome
  2. Child = 6.30 to 12.70 year of age; Adolescent = 12.80 to18.30 year of age
  3. P-CDI parent-child dysfunctional interaction; PD parental distress; DC difficult child; Total PS total parent stress