Table 2.

Maternal Demographic and Infant Perinatal Variables Among the Control and Intervention Groups

	Controla		Interventionb
	M	SD	M	SD
Maternal Variables
Maternal Age (Years)	27.1	5.2	27.0	5.2
Maternal Education (Years)	10.9	1.6	10.9	1.4
Age at First Pregnancy (Years)	18.7	4.3	18.2	3.8
% Single	96.4		91.7
% Unemployed	97.7		100.0
% African American	97.7		94.0
Infant Variables
Birth Weight (gm)	2,784	497	2,812	483
Head Circumference (cm)	32.7	1.8	33.0	2.3
Birth Length (cm)	47.4	6.1	47.8	2.8
Gestational Age (Weeks)	38.8	2.3	38.3	2.1
1-min Apgar	8.1	1.1	7.9	1.2
5-min Apgar	8.9	0.3	8.9	0.5
% Male	48.9		44.0
% Preterm (<37 Weeks)	11.2		17.6

^an = 87.

^bn = 84.