Sociodemographic characteristics of participants
| Participants | N (%) |
| Survey respondents | |
| Fathers | 68 (9.3) |
| Mothers | 665 (90.7) |
| Age classes | |
| ≤25 years | 27 (3.7) |
| 26–30 years | 193 (26.5) |
| 31–35 years | 265 (36.4) |
| 36–40 years | 175 (24.0) |
| >40 years | 69 (9.5) |
| Educational level | |
| University | 437 (67.2) |
| High school | 153 (23.5) |
| Other level | 60 (9.2) |
| Nationality | |
| Lebanese | 616 (93.3) |
| Non-Lebanese | 43 (6.5) |
| Specialty | |
| Medical | 26 (4.4) |
| Para-medical | 88 (14.9) |
| Non-medical | 474 (80.5) |
| Marital status | |
| Married | 705 (96.6) |
| Divorced or widowed | 25 (3.4) |
| No of children | |
| 1 | 135 (18.4) |
| 2 | 350 (47.8) |
| 3 | 170 (23.2) |
| 4 | 53 (7.2) |
| 5 | 13 (1.8) |
| >5 | 11 (1.5) |
| First child age | |
| ≤3 years | 56 (7.7) |
| 4 years | 117 (16.2) |
| 5 years | 125 (17.3) |
| 6 years | 102 (14.1) |
| >6 years | 324 (44.8) |
| Child/children health status | |
| Presence of underlying chronic condition (eg, congenital heart/lung disease, Down’s syndrome or other condition that may cause more often or serious sickness) | 67 (9.3) |