Table 2.
Summary of regression analyses relating mothers’ childhood disadvantage to birth outcomes, with inclusion of demographic covariates
| Outcome | b for trend | SE | ββ for trend |
Exp (B) | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length of gestation a | −0.16 | .08 | −.08 | -- | .042 |
| Preterm birth b | 0.26 | .13 | -- | 1.29 | .050 |
| Birth weight percentile a | −0.02 | .01 | −.08 | -- | .047 |
| Small for gestational age b | 0.26 | .12 | -- | 1.30 | .045 |
| Length of hospital stay a | 1.11 | .32 | .15 | -- | .001 |
| Special care nursery b | 0.20 | .10 | -- | 1.22 | .036 |
Note. Values reflect association between mothers’ childhood disadvantage and specified pregnancy outcome, adjusted for maternal age, and dummy variables reflecting Black race and Hispanic ethnicity.
a
Continuous outcome modeled in linear regression, where b and β denote the unstandardized and standardized coefficients, respectively.
b
Binary outcome modeled in logistic regression, where b and Exp (B) denote the unstandardized coefficient and odds ratio, respectively. P values are two-tailed. N’s = 666–671.