Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of intervention and control groups

Characteristics	Intervention (mean ± SD)	Control (mean ± SD)	P-value
Age, years	27.32±5.55	26.54±5.22	0.4
Husband’s age, years	30.92±6.35	31.04±6.31	0.9
Duration of marriage, years	6.14±4.61	6.28±5.38	0.8
Number of pregnancies	2.22±1.21	2.18±1.20	0.8
Gestational age, weeks	19.72±4.07	21.42±3.88	0.3
	Intervention N (%)	Control N (%)
Women’s education			0.6
Primary school	8 (16%)	7 (14%)
Secondary school	10 (20%)	9 (18%)
High school	0 (0%)	3 (6%)
Diploma or above	32 (64%)	31 (62%)
Educational level			0.1
Primary school	7 (14%)	3 (6%)
Secondary school	10 (20%)	14 (28%)
High school	0 (0%)	2 (4%)
Diploma or above	33 (66%)	31 (62%)
Occupation			0.3
Employed	5 (10%)	8 (16%)
Housewife	45 (90%)	42 (84%)
Religion			0.6
Shia	27 (54%)	35 (70%)
Sunni	23 (46%)	15 (30%)

Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.