The Need for Psychiatric Assessment in Children with Down Syndrome and Factors Affecting Their Use of Mental Health Services: A Cross-Sectional Study from Turkey

Table 1

Sociodemographic variables of children with DS and their parents.

Variables	Mean (n)	Standard deviation (%)
Age (years)	7	4.7
Gender
Female	39	54.2
Male	33	45.8
Maternal age	39.3	7.3
Paternal age	41.8	7.4
Maternal educational status
Illiterate	2	2.8
Primary school	25	34.8
High school	23	31.9
University and higher education	22	30.5
Paternal educational status
Illiterate	0	0
Primary school	23	32
High school	24	33.3
University and higher education	25	34.7
Maternal employment status
No employment	40	55.6
Currently employed	32	44.4
Reasons for mothers’ unemployment
Dismissal	8	20.5
To meet the needs of the child with DS	14	35.9
Other reasons	17	43.6
Paternal employment status
No employment	10	13.9
Currently employed	62	86.1
Kinship between parents
No	56	77.8
Yes	16	22.2