Table 3. Type of delivery and Apgar score among the groups of parturients. Campinas, SP, Southeastern Brazil, 2013.

Variable	Study group						p
	SP6		Touch		Control
	N = 52		N = 52		N = 52
Type of delivery	n	%	n	%	n	%
Vaginal	38	73.1	33	63.5	30	57.7	0.2526a,Ԛ
Cesarean section	14	26.9	19	36.6	22	42.3
Apgar scores	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
1st min	8.5	1.2	8.17	1.8	8.3	2.1	0.9542a,ⱳ
5th min	9.6	0.6	9.54	0.7	9.3	1.5	0.7218a,ⱳ

^a p < 0.05

^Ԛ Chi-square test

^ⱳ Kruskal-Wallis test