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Published in final edited form as: Community Ment Health J. 2017 Oct 3;54(4):410–419. doi: 10.1007/s10597-017-0171-2

Table 1.

Proportion of women according to sociodemographic factors, number of prenatal life stressors, maternal employment during the postpartum, and PPD based on PPD threshold by race/ethnicity

	White	Asian/Pacific Islander	Hispanic	African American
	(n=838)	(n=463)	(n=985)	(n=724)
Maternal Age
<20	1.0^a	2.0^a	10.9^b	7.7^c
20–34	70.1^a	74.4^a,b	74.6^b	76.1^b
≥35	28.9^a	23.5^b	14.5^c	16.2^c
Maternal Education
0–8	0.2^a	4.0^b	11.4^c	2.4^b
9–11	1.9^a	13.6^b	21.1^c	15.3^b
12	16.4^a	17.4^a	24.6^b	26.1^b
13–15	17.5^a	14.7^a	28.0^b	37.2^c
≥16	63.9^a	50.3^b	14.8^c	19.0^d
Income
<10,000	8.0^a	16.6^b	34.4^c	27.3^d
10,000–14,999	6.6^a	17.7^b	17.6^b	10.3^c
15,000, 19,999	3.9^a	7.6^b	9.0^b	8.5^b
20,000–24,999	3.2^a	7.5^b	8.0^c	12.4^d
25,000–34,999	6.7^a	6.4^a	9.5^b	15.0^c
35,000–49,999	6.9^a	4.8^a	7.3^a	10.0^b
50,000–74,999	10.7^a	7.4^a	5.6^b	9.2^a
≥75,000	53.9^a	32.0^b	8.6^c	7.3^c
Maternal Nativity
U.S. Born	70.3^a	15.7^b	42.8^c	56.6^c
Non-U.S. Born	29.7^a	84.3^b	57.2^c	43.4^c
Stresses
0	42.8^a	46.0^a	26.7^b	22.6^b
1–2	42.5^a	43.6^a	44.4^a	42.2^a
3–5	14.5^a	8.8^b	24.0^c	29.7^d
6–13	0.2^a	1.5^b	4.9^c	5.5^c
Intention for Pregnancy
Sooner	26.3^a	26.9^b	12.2^c	16.6^d
Later	16.0^a	23.8^b	39.1^c	38.0^c
Then	55.2^a	42.6^b	39.5^b	31.7^c
Did not want	2.5^a	6.7^b	9.2^b	13.7^c
Maternal Employment
No	52.6^a	56.3^a,c	63.5^b	58.4^c
Yes	47.4^a	43.7^a,c	36.5^b	41.6^c
Postpartum Depression Diagnosis
No	82.2^a	83.2^a	82.7^a	84.9^a
Yes	17.8^a	16.8^a	17.3^a	15.1^a