TABLE 2.
Sociodemographic measures by EPDS item 10: “The thought of harming myself has occurred to me”a
| The thought of harming myself has occurred to meb | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totalc | Never | Hardly Ever | Sometimes/ Often |
Test statistic |
p | Pair-wise comparison | |||
| Demographic Variable |
(N = 628) | (N = 496) | (N = 98) | (N = 34) | N v H | N v S | H v S | ||
| Age | 28.7 ± 6.00 | 28.9 ± 6.04 | 28.3 ± 5.99 | 26.2 ± 4.92 | X2 (6) = 5.71 | 0.0251 | 0.303 | 0.009* | 0.071 |
| Race | X2 (4) = 16.2 | 0.0027 | 0.187 | 0.002* | 0.010* | ||||
| White | 460 (73.2) | 373 (81.1) | 71 (15.4) | 16 (3.5) | |||||
| Black | 133 (21.2) | 100 (75.2) | 18 (13.5) | 15 (11.3) | |||||
| Other | 35 (5.6) | 23 (65.7) | 9 (25.7) | 3 (8.6) | |||||
| Education (level) | X2 (8) = 8.44 | 0.3919 | |||||||
| <High school | 41 (6.5) | 31 (75.6) | 6 (14.6) | 4 (9.8) | |||||
| High school | 129 (20.5) | 96 (74.4) | 22 (17.1) | 11 (8.5) | |||||
| Some college | 199 (31.7) | 157 (78.9) | 33 (16.6) | 9 (4.5) | |||||
| College | 154 (24.5) | 122 (79.2) | 26 (16.9) | 6 (3.9) | |||||
| Graduate School | 105 (16.7) | 90 (85.7) | 11 (10.5) | 4 (3.8) | |||||
| Medical insurance | P < 0.01 | 0.0223 | 0.117 | 0.034 | 0.053 | ||||
| Private | 353 (56.2) | 286 (81.0) | 55 (15.6) | 12 (3.4) | |||||
| Public | 269 (42.8) | 207 (77.0) | 40 (14.9) | 22 (8.2) | |||||
| None | 6 (1.0) | 3 (50.0) | 3 (50.0) | 0 (0.0) | |||||
| Marital status | P < 0.01 | 0.0686 | |||||||
| Single | 266 (42.4) | 199 (74.8) | 46 (17.3) | 21 (7.9) | |||||
| Married/cohabiting | 349 (55.6) | 287 (82.2) | 50 (14.3) | 12 (3.4) | |||||
| Divorced/separated | 13 (2.1) | 10 (76.9) 1.02 ± |
2 (15.4) | 1 (7.7) | |||||
| Parity (1 or >1) | 1.03 ± 1.11 | 1.08 | 1.04 ± 1.29 | 1.03 ± 0.94 | H(2) = 0.69 | 0.7094 | |||
| Parity | X2(6) = 5.71 | 0.4565 | |||||||
| 0 | 235 (37.4) | 182 (77.4) | 43 (18.3) | 10 (4.3) | |||||
| 1 | 238 (37.9) | 192 (80.7) | 30 (12.6) | 16 (6.7) | |||||
| 2 | 96 (15.3) | 77 (80.2) | 13 (13.5) | 6 (6.3) | |||||
| 3+ | 59 (9.4) | 45 (76.3) | 12 (20.3) | 2 (3.4) | |||||
a
Descriptive statistics presented as mean ± SD, n (%N).
b
Item 10 of the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale.
c
Total column n is the denominator for percentages in “Never”, “Hardly ever”, and “Sometimes”/”Quite often” columns.
*
Significant after Bonferroni correction.