Table 3.
The influence of maternal education level and caregiver type on the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) pass rates among the infants.
| 3-month-old |
6-month-old |
9-month-old |
12-month-old |
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| Pass (n) (%) | Suspect (n) (%) | Abnormal (n) (%) | Pass (n) (%) | Suspect (n) (%) | Abnormal (n) (%) | Pass (n) (%) | Suspect (n) (%) | Abnormal (n) (%) | Pass (n) (%) | Suspect (n) (%) | Abnormal (n) (%) | ||
| Maternal education level | Less than undergraduate | 253 (0.891) | 17 (0.06) | 14 (0.049) | 128 (0.826) | 12 (0.077) | 15 (0.097) | 87 (0.845) | 10 (0.097) | 6 (0.058) | 56 (0.812) | 10 (0.145) | 3 (0.043) |
| Undergraduate | 787 (0.916) | 42 (0.049) | 30 (0.035) | 578 (0.893) | 35 (0.054) | 34 (0.053) | 312 (0.855) | 25 (0.068) | 28 (0.077) | 174 (0.879) | 14 (0.071) | 10 (0.051) | |
| Higher than undergraduate | 403 (0.929) | 15 (0.035) | 16 (0.037) | 307 (0.885) | 25 (0.072) | 15 (0.043) | 115 (0.816) | 7 (0.005) | 19 (0.135) | 331 (0.886) | 33 (0.079) | 17 (0.035) | |
| χ2 | 4.092 | 7.876 | 6.791 | 3.859 | |||||||||
| P-value | 0.392 | 0.093 | 0.142 | 0.421 | |||||||||
| Caregiver type | Parents | 902 (0.919) | 44 (0.045) | 35 (0.036) | 499 (0.897) | 33 (0.059) | 24 (0.043) | 251 (0.854) | 22 (0.075) | 21 (0.071) | 214 (0.93) | 9 (0.039) | 7 (0.03) |
| Grandparents | 284 (0.913) | 13 (0.042) | 14 (0.045) | 249 (0.868) | 19 (0.066) | 19 (0.066) | 141 (0.839) | 8 (0.048) | 19 (0.113) | 91 (0.867) | 10 (0.095) | 4 (0.038) | |
| Baby sitters | 97 (0.915) | 5 (0.047) | 4 (0.038) | 53 (0.883) | 6 (0.171) | 3 (0.086) | 33 (0.805) | 4 (0.098) | 4 (0.098) | 24 (0.75) | 5 (0.156) | 3 (0.094) | |
| χ2 | 0.821 | 2.529 | 4.398 | 11.819 | |||||||||
| P-value | 0.940 | 0.633 | 0.344 | 0.012a* | |||||||||
aFisher’s exact test.
*P < 0.05.