description of the sample of accompanying persons and health care professionals_
| accompanying persons characteristics | |
| relationship to child | biological parent: 11; grandparent: 1 |
| gender | female: 8; male: 4 |
| mean age (in years) | 44 (range: 33 – 64) |
| employment | in employment: n=10 |
| parenting situation | single parent: n=2 |
| own disease | n=5 no disease, n=2 mental disease, n=4 several physical diseases and n=1 mental and physical disease |
| middle age | 9 years (range: 3–14) |
| health care provider characteristics | |
| middle age (in years) | 43 (range: 25 – 57) |
| gender | female: 16; male: 2 |
| work experience in the respective clinic (in years) | 11 years (range: 2 – 30) |