Table 2.
Association between selected measures collected at baseline and rapid repeat pregnancy
| Repeat pregnancy status by 24 months post-partum | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n =147) Mean (SD) | No (n = 207) Mean (SD) | P value | |
| Mental health Factors | |||
| Good Mental health index (higher score is better) | 3.66 (0.63) | 3.72 (0.60) | .328 |
| Anxiety | 2.62 (0.77) | 2.54 (0.74) | .360 |
| Depression | 2.26 (0.74) | 2.14 (0.71) | .121 |
| Aggression Proxies | |||
| Perceived self-efficacy to not be aggressive | |||
| How confident are you in your ability to settle differences with people close to you without hitting, pushing, or getting physical?a | 3.16 (1.02) | 3.40 (0.88) | .022 |
| How likely are you to settle differences with people close to you without hitting, pushing, or getting physical with one another?a | 3.33 (0.88) | 3.41 (0.88) | .404 |
| Perceived norms of close persons regarding aggressive behavior | |||
| How much help (would/do) you get from people close to you in finding ways of settling differences without hitting and pushing?a | 3.42 (0.80) | 3.50 (0.79) | .307 |
| How much (would/do) people close to you provoke you to hit or push (if you didn’t want to)? b | 3.44 (0.85) | 3.24 (1.02) | .046 |
| Attitudes toward aggression | |||
| Sometimes people must use physical force to let others know just how important something is to them. b | 2.84 (0.78) | 2.63 (0.84) | .019 |
| People who settle their differences by getting physical end up hurting one another both physically and emotionally.a | 3.14 (0.81) | 3.18 (0.76) | .670 |
| Substance Use | Freq (%) | Freq (%) | |
| Drank alcohol past 14 days | 4 (2.7%) | 2 (1.0%) | .207 |
| Drank alcohol during pregnancy | 6 (4.1%) | 5 (2.4%) | .373 |
| Smoked cigarettes past 3 days | 10 (6.8%) | 10 (4.8%) | .428 |
| Used drugs during pregnancy | 7 (4.8%) | 10 (4.8%) | .976 |
| Negative Life Experiences | |||
| Any contact abuse (physical or sexual) during childhood | 17 (11.6%) | 27 (13.0%) | .678 |
| Prior pregnancy with poor outcome | 17 (11.6%) | 23 (11.2%) | .907 |
| Lived in foster home prior to age 13 years | 1 (0.7%) | 4 (2.0%) | .327 |
| Birth control | |||
| Birth control use (since start of pregnancy risk) | 90 (61.2%) | 129 (62.3%) | .835 |
| Frequency of birth control use (since start of pregnancy risk) | .290 | ||
| Once in a while | 22 (24.4%) | 33 (25.6%) | |
| About half the time | 13 (14.4%) | 15 (11.6%) | |
| Most of the time | 19 (21.1%) | 41 (31.8%) | |
| Always until I stopped | 20 (22.2%) | 27 (20.9%) | |
| Every time; pregnancy resulted from a birth control method failure | 16 (17.8%) | 10 (10.1%) | |
a
(high score = lower expected aggression)
b
(high score = more expected aggression)