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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2011 Dec;15(Suppl 1):96–105. doi: 10.1007/s10995-011-0825-6

Table 2.

Women Screening Positive for Smoking Before Pregnancy: Baseline Smokers Randomized to Intervention vs. Usual Care

Characteristic Intervention (n=105) Usual Care (n=90) p-value

Maternal age (Mean ± SD) 26.9 ± 6.5 26.8 ± 6.1 0.930

Pregnancies (incl. current) (Mean ± SD) 4.8 ± 3.1 4.7 ± 2.6 0.948

Previous live births (Mean ± SD) 2.2 ± 2.1 2.2 ± 1.7 0.991

Relationship status: 0.522
- Single/separated/widowed/divorced 80 (76.2%) 72 (80.0%)
- Married/living with partner 25 (23.8%) 18 (20.0%)

Education level: 0.765
- < High school 51 (48.6%)
40 (44.4%)
- High school/GED 42 (40.0%)
37 (41.1%)
- Some college or more 12 (11.4%) 13 (14.4%)

Medicaid recipient 95 (90.5%) 79 (87.8%) 0.545

Alcohol use 39 (37.1%) 29 (32.2%) 0.472

Illicit drug use 28 (26.7%) 26 (28.9%) 0.730

Active smoking at follow-up 62 (74.7%) 54 (78.3%) 0.607

Active smoking at postpartum 64 (83.1%) 67 (91.8%) 0.111

Cotinine level at baseline (Mean ± SD) 192.9 ± 165.0 162.4 ± 144.6 0.216

Cotinine level at follow-up (Mean ± SD) 146.0 ± 139.4 131.9 ± 117.6 0.528

Cotinine level at postpartum (Mean ± SD) 290.8 ± 182.7 236.1 ± 162.2 0.103

ETSE at baseline 89 (87.3%) 75 (84.3%) 0.555

ETSE at follow-up 66 (80.5%) 52 (75.4%) 0.448

ETSE at postpartum 58 (74.4%) 56 (78.9%) 0.516

Depression at baseline 57 (54.3%) 45 (50.0%) 0.550

Depression at follow-up 39 (47.0%) 34 (49.3%) 0.779

Depression at follow-up postpartum 23 (29.9%) 23 (31.5%) 0.828

Intimate partner violence at baseline 38 (36.2%) 35 (38.9%) 0.698

Intimate partner violence at follow-up 8 (9.8%) 6 (8.7%) 0.823

Intimate partner violence at postpartum 6 (7.8%) 7 (9.6%) 0.696