Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of a prenatal sample in a primary care clinic, by skin colour, São Paulo Brazil 2005 (n=811)
| Variables | Total (n=811) | White (n=377) | Black (n=124) | Brown (n=310) | F-statistic or Chi-square test |
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| Smokes tobacco | |||||
| Yes | 134 (16%) | 49 (13%) | 28 (23%) | 57 (18%) | 7.48 (2), p=0.02 |
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| Age | |||||
| 16–19 | 161 (20%) | 83 (22%) | 28 (23%) | 50 (16%) | 5.9 (4), p=0.21 |
| 20–29 | 457 (56%) | 200 (53%) | 68 (54%) | 189 (61%) | |
| 30–44 | 193 (24%) | 94 (25%) | 28 (23%) | 71 (23%) | |
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| Lives with partner or married | |||||
| yes | 610 (75%) | 277 (73%) | 88 (71%) | 245 (79%) | 4.2 (2), p=0.12 |
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| Education (years) | |||||
| 9 or more | 408 (50%) | 214 (57%) | 59 (48%) | 135 (44%) | 12.3 (2), p=0.002 |
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| Monthly family income (US$) Ӄ | |||||
| 0–350 | 330 (41%) | 144 (38%) | 60 (48%) | 126 (41%) | 10.4 (4), p=0.04 |
| 351–705 | 299 (37%) | 132 (35%) | 41 (33%) | 126 (40%) | |
| 706 or more | 182 (22%) | 101 (27%) | 23 (19%) | 58 (19%) | |
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| Common mental disorder | |||||
| Yes | 262 (32%) | 114 (30%) | 43 (35%) | 105 (34%) | 1.4 (2), p=0.50 |
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| Past psychiatric treatment | |||||
| Yes | 109 (13%) | 59 (16%) | 6 (5%) | 44 (14%) | 9.6 (2), p=0.008 |
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Based on 2005 conversion rates between Brazilian Real and U.S. Dollar
‡
95% CI=95% confidence interval