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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2013 May 1;170(5):485–493. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11121873

Table 1.

Maternal demographic and clinical measures

Exposure during pregnancy P values


Measure All
(N=174)
None
(N=97)
SSRI
(N=46)
MDD
(N=31)
Overall SSRI v
None
MDD v
None
MDD v
SSRI
Age 30.5 ± 5.7 30.6 ± 5.4 31.3 ± 5.1 28.7 ± 7.0 0.126
Race 0.004 0.353 0.012* 0.002*
  White 141 (81.0) 81 (83.5) 42 (91.3) 18 (58.1)
  Black 28 (16.1) 14 (14.4) 3 (6.5) 11 (35.5)
  Other 5 (2.9) 2 (2.1) 1 (2.2) 2 (6.5)
White race 141 (81.0) 81 (83.5) 42 (91.3) 18 (58.1) <.001 0.209 0.003* <.001*
Education 0.002 0.842 <.001* 0.012*
  <High school 10 (5.7) 3 (3.1) 2 (4.3) 5 (16.1)
  High school 15 (8.6) 7 (7.2) 3 (6.5) 5 (16.1)
  Some college 30 (17.2) 11 (11.3) 8 (17.4) 11 (35.5)
  College 72 (41.4) 45 (46.4) 20 (43.5) 7 (22.6)
  Graduate school 47 (27.0) 31 (32.0) 13 (28.3) 3 (9.7)
College degree 119 (68.4) 76 (78.4) 33 (71.7) 10 (32.3) <.001 0.386 <.001* <.001*
Employed 103 (59.5) 68 (70.1) 21 (46.7) 14 (45.2) 0.006 0.007* 0.012* 0.897
Marital status 0.053
  Single 38 (21.8) 17 (17.5) 8 (17.4) 13 (41.9)
  Married/cohabiting 131 (75.3) 77 (79.4) 36 (78.3) 18 (58.1)
  Divorced/separated 5 (2.9) 3 (3.1) 2 (4.3) 0 (0.0)
  Widowed 5 (2.9) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Married/cohabiting 131 (75.3) 77 (79.4) 36 (78.3) 18 (58.1) 0.049 0.878 0.018 0.058
Pre-pregnancy BMI 26.4 ± 7.0 25.0 ± 5.6 27.3 ± 6.0 29.3 ± 10.5 0.016 0.008* 0.062 0.979
Parity 1.9 ± 0.95 1.7 ± 0.81 2.1 ± 0.95 2.2 ± 1.2 0.016 0.017 0.025 0.823
Parity 0.087
  1 74 (42.5) 49 (50.5) 15 (32.6) 10 (32.3)
  2 61 (35.1) 33 (34.0) 17 (37.0) 11 (35.5)
  3+ 39 (22.4) 15 (15.5) 14 (30.4) 10 (32.3)
Smoked tobacco during pregnancy 17 (9.8) 8 (8.2) 5 (10.9) 4 (12.9) 0.718
Drank alcohol during pregnancy 0.061
  No 119 (68.4) 67 (69.1) 30 (65.2) 22 (71.0)
  Once a week or less 42 (24.1) 27 (27.8) 11 (23.9) 4 (12.9)
  More than once a week 13 (7.5) 3 (3.1) 5 (10.9) 5 (16.1)
Anxiety (lifetime) 57 (32.8) 23 (23.7) 21 (45.7) 13 (41.9) 0.016 0.008* 0.049 0.747
Baseline SIGH-ADS29 11.8 ± 7.1 8.2 ± 4.8 15.5 ± 7.1 17.6 ± 7.0 <.001 <.001* <.001* 0.208

Abbreviations BMI body mass index; SIGH-ADS Structured interview guide for the Hamilton rating scale for depression with atypical depression supplement.

*

Significant after Bonferroni correction.