Table 1.
Baseline Characteristics for Infants Assigned to the H-HOPE Intervention Group and the Attention Control Group
| Infant Characteristics | H-HOPE (n=90) % |
Attention Control (n=95) % |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | |||
| Female | 57.8 | 45.3 | |
| Male | 42.2 | 54.7 | |
| Plurality | |||
| Singleton | 85.6 | 84.2 | |
| Twin/Triplet | 14.4 | 15.8 | |
| Type of delivery | |||
| NSVD | 54.4 | 52.1 | |
| C-SEC | 45.6 | 47.9 | |
| Site | |||
| A | 55.6 | 57.9 | |
| B | 44.4 | 42.1 | |
| Small for gestational age | |||
| Yes | 30.0 | 29.5 | |
| No | 70.0 | 70.5 | |
| Maternal race/ethnicity | |||
| Latina | 50.0 | 51.6 | |
| African-American | 50.0 | 48.4 | |
|
| |||
| H-HOPE Mean (SD) | Attention Control Mean (SD) | ||
|
| |||
| Gestational age, weeks | 32.6 (1.5) | 32.6 (1.4) | |
| Birthweight, grams | 1800 (330) | 1841 (380) | |
| Apgar score 5 min | 8.3 (1.0) | 8.3 (1.1) | |
| Infant morbidity score at delivery (POPRAS score) | 66.0 (17.7) | 69.8 (19.7) | |
| Chronological age at baseline, days | 8.9 (6.2) | 9.5 (6.7) | |
| Postmenstrual age at baseline, weeks | 33.8 (1.0) | 34.0 (1.0) | |
p > 0.05 (non-significant) for comparison of all infant characteristics by group.