Table 2.
Descriptive statistics for the DS-R (Core, Animal reminder, Contamination disgust subscale scores and the overall DS-R score) and the Pathogen domain of the TDDS in the first (T1) and third (T3) trimester.
| Questionnaire | n | Mean | Median (Quartiles) |
SD | Min. | Max. | Cronbach’s Alpha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall DS-R T1 | 169 | 56.2 | 55 (45, 66) | 14.3 | 21 | 93 | 0.843 |
| Overall DS-R T3 | 176 | 55.1 | 56 (44.8, 66) | 15.3 | 15 | 91 | 0.874 |
| Core T1 | 169 | 29.4 | 30 (25, 35) | 6.96 | 11 | 48 | 0.676 |
| Core T3 | 176 | 28.4 | 28 (23, 34) | 7.56 | 8 | 47 | 0.763 |
| Contamination T1 | 169 | 8.53 | 8 (6, 11) | 3.62 | 2 | 19 | 0.562 |
| Contamination T3 | 176 | 8.53 | 9 (6,11) | 3.70 | 0 | 19 | 0.622 |
| Animal reminder T1 | 169 | 18.3 | 18 (14, 23) | 6.37 | 3 | 32 | 0.760 |
| Animal reminder T3 | 176 | 18.2 | 19 (13, 23) | 6.66 | 0 | 32 | 0.792 |
| Pathogen TDDS T1 | 174 | 23.3 | 24 (17, 28) | 7.35 | 4 | 40 | 0.734 |
| Pathogen TDDS T3 | 176 | 23.4 | 23 (18, 29) | 7.70 | 7 | 41 | 0.798 |
Note: The table shows the total number of participants who filled out each questionnaire at each time point.