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Table 3 Associations between baseline characteristics and OPTION scores
| Parent Factors | Spearman’s rho† or Mann-Whitney U and Z scoreª or Kruskal-Wallis (Chi-square, df)¥ | Significance |
|---|---|---|
| Parent age | 0.05† | 0.793 |
| Parent gender | 3.056, 3¥ | 0.764 |
| Ethnicity | 4.345, 5¥ | 0.818 |
| Parent education | 6.496, 5¥ | 0.261 |
| Marital status | 1.250, 4¥ | 0.945 |
| Family income | 1.015, 5¥ | 0.363 |
| Consulting surgeon | 1.154, 5¥ | 0.450 |
| Time with surgeon | 0.561† | < 0.001 |
| Type of surgery | 0.004† | 0.964 |
| Previous surgical experience (yes or no) | 645.5, −0.015ª | 0.211 |
| Parent perceptions of shared decision making (SDM-Q-9) | 0.076† | 0.415 |
| Surgeon perceptions of shared decision making (SDM-Q-Doc) | 0.110† | 0.236 |
