Table 1.
Participant Characteristics | Childhood in US (n = 36)a |
Childhood in Latin America |
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Spanish |
English |
Total |
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(n = 9) | (n = 27) | (n = 114) | |||||||||||
Sociodemographic | n | % | M | SD | n | % | M | SD | n | % | M | SD | |
Maternal age | 22.89 | 6.60 | 21.78 | 4.22 | 29.40 | 5.74 | |||||||
Age of migration (foreign-born) | 1.89 | 1.83 | 5.0 | 2.45 | 20.29 | 5.21 | |||||||
Foreign-born | 7 | 78.78 | 8 | 29.63 | 112 | 98.25 | |||||||
English | 0 | 0 | 27 | 100 | 5 | 4.39 | |||||||
Income | |||||||||||||
≤ $15,000 | 3 | 33.33 | 11 | 40.74 | 45 | 39.47 | |||||||
$15,000 -- $29,999 | 5 | 55.55 | 12 | 44.44 | 59 | 51.75 | |||||||
$30,000 - $39,999 | 1 | 11.11 | 4 | 14.81 | 9 | 7.89 | |||||||
≥ $40,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .88 | |||||||
Married/Partner | 7 | 77.78 | 20 | 74.07 | 84 | 73.68 | |||||||
Maternal education | |||||||||||||
0 - 8th grade | 1 | 11.11 | 1 | 3.70 | 52 | 45.61 | |||||||
Some high school | 3 | 33.33 | 11 | 40.74 | 29 | 25.44 | |||||||
Graduated high school | 3 | 33.33 | 8 | 29.63 | 20 | 17.54 | |||||||
Some college | 2 | 22.89 | 3 | 11.11 | 7 | 6.14 | |||||||
4-year college degree | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14.81 | 6 | 5.26 | |||||||
Work outside home | 5 | 55.56 | 13 | 48.15 | 31 | 27.19 | |||||||
Health insurance | |||||||||||||
None | 4 | 44.44 | 4 | 14.82 | 93 | 81.58 | |||||||
Medicare/Medicaid | 4 | 44.44 | 23 | 85.19 | 20 | 17.54 | |||||||
Private | 1 | 2.78 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .88 | |||||||
Country of heritage | |||||||||||||
Mexico | 7 | 77.78 | 19 | 70.37 | 58 | 50.88 | |||||||
Central America | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11.11 | 47 | 41.22 | |||||||
Caribbean | 2 | 22.22 | 3 | 11.11 | 6 | 5.26 | |||||||
South America | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7.41 | 3 | 2.63 | |||||||
Physiological | |||||||||||||
Nulliparous | 3 | 33.33 | 14 | 51.85 | 19 | 16.67 | |||||||
Gestational Age (weeks) | 28.79 | 1.80 | 28.70 | .91 | 28.70 | 1.60 | |||||||
Cytokines: log transformed values | |||||||||||||
Cytokine Profile | 4.69 | .53 | 5.10 | .81 | 4.81 | .76 | |||||||
Interleukin-beta | 1.40 | .25 | 1.40 | .31 | 1.37 | .26 | |||||||
TNF-alpha | 1.26 | .12 | 1.38 | .17 | 1.30 | .21 | |||||||
Interleukin-8 | .48 | .18 | .65 | .20 | .56 | .20 | |||||||
Interferon-gamma | 1.56 | .11 | 1.65 | .25 | 1.59 | .21 | |||||||
Cytokines: raw values (pg/ml) | |||||||||||||
Interleukin-beta | 28.55 | 15.67 | 31.84 | 25.00 | 28.16 | 20.40 | |||||||
TNF-alpha | 18.70 | 6.06 | 25.70 | 10.24 | 22.34 | 11.41 | |||||||
Interleukin-8 | 3.29 | 1.56 | 4.97 | 2.30 | 4.02 | 1.85 | |||||||
Interferon-gamma | 37.25 | 9.63 | 50.93 | 26.63 | 43.64 | 20.23 | |||||||
Pre-pregnancy weight (lbs) | 155.9 | 34.3 | 149.0 | 31.9 | 147.7 | 28.7 | |||||||
Psychosocial | |||||||||||||
Traumatic Avoidance Symptoms | 5.89 | 3.48 | 7.0 | 3.51 | 5.54 | 2.79 | |||||||
Everyday Discrimination | 1.11 | 2.67 | 6.15 | 6.85 | 2.33 | 3.95 |
Note.
Participants who spent their childhood in the US (0–9 years old) based on nativity, age at migration, and years living in the US; Childhood in US participants are subdivided based on survey language selection (English vs Spanish).