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Table 4 Characteristics of participants in the Healthy Parent Carers feasibility study

From: Healthy Parent Carers programme: development and feasibility of a novel group-based health-promotion intervention

Participant age

 

Mean 44.6 (range 37–53) years

Partner at home

 

6 yes, 1 no

Ethnicity

 

100% white British

Child diagnosis

Cerebral palsy

2

Autism/ADHD

4

Undiagnosed

1

Child age

 

Mean 9.8 (range 6–13) years

Siblings

 

Median 1 sibling, range 0–4

Indices of Multiple Deprivationa in area of residence (by postcode): national quintiles

1 (least deprived)

1

2

1

3

1

4

4

5 (most deprived)

0

  1. aThe Indices of Deprivation 2015 [42] provide a set of relative measures of deprivation for small areas across England, based on seven different domains of deprivation: (i) Income Deprivation, (ii) Employment Deprivation, (iii) Education, Skills and Training Deprivation, (iv) Health Deprivation and Disability, (v) Crime, (vi) Barriers to Housing and Services, and (vii) Living Environment Deprivation. Each of these domains is based on a basket of indicators
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BMC Public Health

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