Table 3.

Experiences of Hurricane Katrina and rebuilding in women receiving Healthy Start and traditional prenatal care

	Healthy Start		Traditional PNC only		P Value
	N	%	N	%
Hurricane experiences
Feared for life	54	45.0	77	27.5	<0.01
Injured/ill	15	12.5	28	10.0	0.45
Household member injured	24	20.0	47	16.7	0.43
Walked through floodwater	40	33.3	54	19.3	<0.01
Much or enormous damage to house	82	68.3	140	49.8	<0.01
House flooded	72	61.5	115	41.2	<0.01
Death of close one	19	16.0	26	9.2	0.05
See someone die	29	24.2	39	13.8	0.01
3 or more serious experiences	31	25.8	42	14.9	0.01
Recovery experiences
Life still very or somewhat disrupted	49	45.4	74	30.5	0.01
Not satisfied with life in parish	48	40.3	56	20.0	<0.01
Optimistic/pessimistic	23	39.7	30	18.0	<0.01
Recovery going in the wrong direction	31	42.5	52	29.4	0.05
Race relations are worse	14	12.7	58	22.0	0.04
Low progress in combating crime	63	56.3	121	48.8	0.19
Low progress in medical care	38	33.6	58	22.1	0.02
Low progress in services	7	6.4	20	7.6	0.67
Low progress in neighborhood	50	45.9	87	33.0	0.02
Low progress in schools	35	30.7	52	20.4	0.03
Low progress in streets	47	41.2	97	36.7	0.41
Low progress in levees	22	24.7	34	15.3	0.05
Overall progress since storm					0.02
Lots	39	33.3	127	45.7
Medium	56	47.9	123	44.2
Not much	22	18.8	28	10.1
Worried about hurricanes	89	77.4	218	79.9	0.59
Worried about income	91	77.8	184	67.7	0.04
Worried about health care	73	64.6	171	63.3	0.81
Worried about pollutants	65	57.5	156	57.4	0.98
Worried about levees	83	76.2	201	74.7	0.77
Worried about place	81	71.7	173	63.6	0.13