. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 14.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Board Fam Med. 2011 May-Jun;24(3):249–257. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2011.03.100201

Table 2.

Cross-sectional associations of significant depressive symptoms at 4-months postpartum with infant and maternal health-related quality of life ^†

	Infant Health-Related Quality of Life		Maternal Health-Related Quality of Life

	Pain or Discomfort (n=186)	Mothers' Health- Related Concerns (n=185)	MCS (n=203)	PCS (n=203)
Depressive Symptoms	0.21 (0.085)^‡	0.16 (0.046)^‖	−6.28 (0.959)^‖	−1.26 (0.825)
Covariates
Age
18–24	−0.16 (0.154)	−0.15 (0.083)	−1.76 (1.703)	2.05 (1.465)
25–34	0.07 (0.088)	−0.03 (0.048)	0.46 (1.006)	1.66 (0.866)
Maternal race
African American	−0.29 (0.105)^§	−0.11 (0.057)	0.21 (1.162)	−0.29 (1.000)
Maternal education
College or greater level	−0.10 (0.083)	−0.07 (0.045)	0.67 (0.956)	0.66 (0.823)
Marital status
Married	0.19 (0.124)	0.02 (0.067)	−0.86 (1.455)	4.05 (1.252)^§
Poverty status
At/below poverty	0.24 (0.182)	0.01 (0.098)	−0.35 (2.035)	1.40 (1.751)

All data provided as β (SE)

^†

Reference groups in the models are women: age 35+, European American, less than college education, unmarried, and above poverty. Models for children also control for child gender and birth weight.

^‡

P ≤ .05

^§

P ≤ .01

^‖

P ≤ .001