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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Mar 19.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2007 Aug 31;47(1):58–65. doi: 10.1177/0009922807305872

Table 3.

Caregiver Characteristics by Prenatal Drug Group Status (N = 144)

Prenatal Drug Groupa
Characteristic Exposed (n = 113) Unexposed (n = 31)
Age at delivery (mean years) 33.9 ± 9.5 27.3 ± 5.8b
Education: highest year Completed (mean years) 11.4 ± 1.6 11.3 ± 1.7
Prenatal substance exposure
 Cocaine only 20 (17.7)
 Opiate only 30 (26.5)
 Cocaine + opiate 63 (55.8)
 Alcohol (≤1 per week) 33 (29.2) 5 (16.1)
Postnatal illicit drug use at follow-up 75 (66.3) 0c
a

Continuous data are presented as mean ± standard deviation; categoric data as number (%).

b

P < .01.

c

P < .001.