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 4

Correlation of the sociodemographic variables with clinical variables of children.

Variables		Age at the first psychiatric assessment	Age at the first admission to hospital	Age at starting special education	The duration of special education	Prenatal diagnosis
Mothers’ age	r	0.309	0.158	0.213	0.396	0.149
		0.008	0.194	0.089	0.001	0.210
Fathers’ age	r	0.357	0.189	0.184	0.419	0.195
		0.002	0.120	0.142	0.000	0.100
Mothers’ educational status	r	−0.361	−0.116	−0.264	−0.031	−0.124
		0.002	0.343	0.034	0.800	0.300
Fathers’ educational status	r	−0.423	−0.208	−0.341	−0.141	−0.148
		0.000	0.087	0.005	0.253	0.216