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Published in final edited form as: J Hum Resour. 2024 Apr;59(Suppl):S365–S401. doi: 10.3368/jhr.1222-12693r3

Table A11:

Maternal Mental Health Measures I: Loadings and Signal-to-noise Ratio

Measurement Loading % Signal
Control Treated Nondep.
6 months
scid13: Current major depressive episode(−) 1.000 61.4% 90.5% 63.4%
scid1: Depressed Mode (−) 1.059 57.5% 56.2% 49.5%
scid2: Loss of interest (−) 1.035 57.3% 56.1% 59.3%
scid3: Weight/appetite loss or gain (−) 0.832 37.9% 34.3% 37.3%
scid4: Sleep disturbance (−) 0.858 38.6% 38.9% 37.9%
scid5: Psychomotor agitation or retardation(−) 1.055 61.2% 58.2% 55.2%
scid6: Fatigue or loss of energy (−) 1.025 50.0% 45.5% 33.4%
scid7: Feeling of worthlessness or inapropriate guilt (−) 0.696 30.0% 27.8% 36.3%
scid8: Diminished ability to concentrate or indecisiveness (−) 0.886 44.6% 43.5% 40.5%
scid9: Recurrent thoughts of death or suicidal ideation (−) 0.304 5.3% 7.4% 12.8%
scid10: Symptoms cause significant distress or impairment (−) 1.034 55.2% 55.9% 47.8%
pss3: How often have you felt nervous or stressed? (−) 1.047 53.2% 43.3% 36.3%
phq1: Feeling tired or having little energy. (−) 0.935 42.5% 39.5% 29.2%
phq2: Poor appetite or overeating. (−) 0.766 32.0% 31.2% 25.7%
phq3: Trouble falling or staying asleep (−) 0.705 26.3% 28.3% 26.7%
phq4: Moving/speaking so slowly (−) 0.871 44.0% 38.2% 43.3%
phq5: Trouble concentrating on things(−) 0.831 35.2% 36.8% 32.7%
phq6: Little interest or pleasure in doing things (−) 0.986 48.5% 50.3% 45.9%
phq7: Feeling down, depressed, hopeless (−) 1.077 59.1% 54.8% 47.6%
phq8: Feeling bad about yourself (−) 0.808 38.2% 40.9% 39.7%
12 months
scid13: Current major depressive episode(−) 1.000 65.0% 57.5% 62.1%
scid1: Depressed Mode (−) 1.059 59.3% 53.7% 42.9%
scid2: Loss of interest (−) 1.035 60.2% 54.7% 47.6%
scid3: Weight/appetite loss or gain (−) 0.832 35.3% 28.3% 29.0%
scid4: Sleep disturbance (−) 0.858 38.9% 32.1% 32.0%
scid5: Psychomotor agitation or retardation(−) 1.055 56.5% 51.9% 46.3%
scid6: Fatigue or loss of energy (−) 1.025 50.5% 42.8% 31.4%
scid7: Feeling of worthlessness or inapropriate guilt (−) 0.696 32.0% 30.0% 34.4%
scid8: Diminished ability to concentrate or indecisiveness (−) 0.886 49.0% 41.4% 45.0%
scid10: Symptoms cause significant distress or impairment (−) 1.034 57.2% 49.6% 50.2%
pss1: In the last month, how often have you been upset? (−) 0.971 49.6% 47.3% 33.6%
pss2: How often have you felt you were unable to control things? (−) 0.968 53.8% 47.2% 34.8%
pss3: How often have you felt nervous or stressed? (−) 1.047 59.1% 56.5% 42.4%
pss4: How often have you felt confident? 0.890 39.4% 61.4% 21.6%
pss5: How often have you felt that things were going your way? 0.903 37.2% 39.9% 26.5%
pss8: How often have you felt that you were on top of things? 0.874 39.4% 35.1% 24.0%
pss10: How often have you felt difficulties piling up?(−) 0.926 44.7% 40.7% 31.2%

Note: This table reports the factor loadings of the measures allowed to load on the maternal mental health factor along with the fraction of variance in each measure that is explained by the variance of the underlying latent factor for the control, treatment and nondepressed group separately. All measures that were negatively worded in the follow-up surveys are reverse coded so that higher score means higher level of underlying skill.