Challenges to obtaining parental permission for child participation in a school-based waterpipe tobacco smoking prevention intervention in Qatar

Table 1 Characteristics of schools who agreed to allow parents to be contacted for the qualitative interviews and schools who did not*

Variable	Schools that agreed to provide parental contact information	Schools that did not agree to provide parental contact information	P-value
Schools with	N** (%)	N** (%)	0.666
Only boys	6 (50.0%)	9 (32.1%)
Only girls	4 (33.3%)	13 (46.4%)
Co-educational	2 (16.7%)	6 (21.4%)
Mean (sd) percent of parents returning consent forms	62.7% (29.1%)	48.2% (26.2%)	.130
Mean (sd) percent of parents who accepted children’s participation	24.7% (16.1%)	16.3% (12.0%)	.077

*The sample size may limit the possibility of meaningful statistical analysis of differences for this question.
**N = number of schools.

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