Table 4.

Significant correlations between socio-demographic, physical, and maternal mental health outcome variables

	IES	GHQd	STAI-X1
Mother
Age			0.32′
Education (years)			0.51**
Previous psychological treatment		0.30′
Parity			0.42*
Trait anxiety (STAI-X2)	0.32′	0.49**
Pregnancy/birth
Infection in pregnancy		−0.34*	−0.30′
Planned Caesarean	−0.36*
Breech birth	0.31′
Child
Sex			−0.30′
GA			0.52**
Birth weight			0.39*
10 min Apgar score			0.38*
Mechanical ventilation			−0.43**
IVHa	0.30′
Surgeryb			−0.37*
Patent ductus arteriosisc			−0.42*

Pearson’s correlation coefficients (p < 0.10) are reported. (N = 35).

‘Correlation is significant at the 0.10 level (two-tailed).

*Correlation is significant at the 0 .05 level (two-tailed).

** Correlation is significant at the 0 .01 level (two-tailed).

^aIntraventricular haemorrhage grade 1 or 2.

^bSurgery after birth e.g. patent ductus arteriosis or hypospadias.

^cPatent ductus arteriosis closed by medical treatment, surgery or by itself.

^dThe GHQ in this table refers to Likert sum scores.