Table 1.
Characteristics of study participants according to measures of anxiety, Proyecto Buena Salud, 2006-2011
| Anxiety measure |
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| Total Sample (n=1412) |
Trait (early pregnancy) |
State (mid-pregnancy) |
State (late-pregnancy) |
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| n | % | mean | sd | p-value | mean | sd | p-value | mean | sd | p-value | |
| Age | |||||||||||
| 16-19 | 441 | 31.2 | 39.8 | 9.8 | 0.02 | 33.5 | 10.8 | 0.59 | 32.4 | 10.0 | 0.82 |
| 20-24 | 551 | 39.0 | 40.2 | 10.2 | 33.7 | 11.1 | 32.7 | 11.2 | |||
| 25-29 | 255 | 18.1 | 40.1 | 11.3 | 35.2 | 13.0 | 33.1 | 11.8 | |||
| ≥30 | 165 | 11.7 | 37.4 | 10.9 | 34.9 | 14.2 | 33.6 | 13.3 | |||
| Education | |||||||||||
| < High School | 646 | 48.1 | 39.7 | 10.1 | <.0001 | 34.8 | 11.5 | 0.43 | 33.9 | 11.5 | 0.05 |
| High School graduate | 429 | 31.9 | 41.0 | 10.7 | 33.4 | 11.8 | 32.9 | 11.3 | |||
| Some college/graduate | 268 | 20.0 | 36.6 | 9.5 | 34.1 | 12.0 | 31.0 | 10.4 | |||
| Annual household income | |||||||||||
| ≤$15,000 | 400 | 57.6 | 41.7 | 11.1 | <.0001 | 35.9 | 12.7 | 0.15 | 34.0 | 11.4 | <.01 |
| >$15,000-$30,000 | 202 | 29.1 | 38.3 | 9.8 | 33.0 | 10.2 | 31.0 | 10.8 | |||
| >$30,000 | 92 | 13.3 | 35.8 | 8.6 | 33.4 | 11.7 | 29.5 | 9.4 | |||
| Living with partner | |||||||||||
| No | 650 | 48.9 | 40.7 | 10.7 | <.01 | 34.4 | 11.9 | 0.43 | 33.9 | 11.5 | 0.02 |
| Yes | 679 | 51.1 | 38.9 | 10.0 | 33.6 | 11.6 | 32.0 | 10.9 | |||
| Any smoking during pregnancy | |||||||||||
| No | 1144 | 83.9 | 38.9 | 10.1 | <.0001 | 33.2 | 11.2 | <.001 | 31.9 | 10.6 | <.0001 |
| Yes | 220 | 16.1 | 44.7 | 11.0 | 38.1 | 13.3 | 37.3 | 13.3 | |||
| Parity | |||||||||||
| Nulliparous | 571 | 41.5 | 38.9 | 10.0 | <.01 | 33.2 | 10.9 | 0.36 | 31.7 | 10.4 | 0.03 |
| 1 | 424 | 30.8 | 39.4 | 10.1 | 34.6 | 12.1 | 32.5 | 10.6 | |||
| >2 | 380 | 27.6 | 41.2 | 11.2 | 34.6 | 12.4 | 34.4 | 12.7 | |||
Percents may not sum to 100 due to rounding.
P-values generated from one-way ANOVAs and t-tests