Table 1. Comparison of mothers’ baseline information – Balıkesir, Marmara Region, Turkey, 2018.

	Intervention		Control		Total		χ2	P
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Age
18–25	15	44.1	15	45.4	30	44.8	0.23	0.89
26–30	14	41.2	12	36.4	26	38.8
31+	5	14.7	6	18.2	11	16.4
Educational status
Primary education	0	0	3	9.1	3	4.5	1.79	0.18
High school	13	38.2	15	45.5	28	41.8
University	21	61.8	15	45.4	36	53.7
Working status
Employed	14	41.2	6	18.2	20	29.8	3.20	0.07
Unemployed	20	58.8	27	81.8	47	70.2
Planning of pregnancy
Planned	27	79.4	27	81.8	54	80.6		1.00a
Not planned	7	20.6	6	18.2	13	19.4
Type of delivery
Vaginal	19	55.9	16	48.5	35	52.2	0.13	0.71
Cesarean section	15	44.1	17	51.5	32	47.8
Parity
Primiparous	27	79.4	25	75.8	52	77.6	0.004	0.94
Multiparous	7	20.6	8	24.2	15	22.4
Gestational week
38 week	0	0	1	3.0	1	1.5		1.00b
39 week	5	14.7	4	12.1	9	13.5
40 week	28	82.3	27	81.8	55	82.1
41-42 week	1	3.0	1	3.1	2	2.9
Infant gender
Male	17	50.0	13	39.3	30	44.8	0.39	0.53
Female	17	50.0	20	60.7	37	55.2
Total	34	100	33	100	67	100

χ² = Chi-Square Test; ^aFisher’s Exact Test; ^bChi-Square Test with The Help of Monte Carlo Simulation.