Table 6. Associations between different trajectories and background factors.

Mothers n = 3202	EPDS Low and stable (n = 2157)	EPDS High and stable (n = 67)	EPDS Moderate (n = 773)	EPDS Decreasing (n = 131)	EPDS Increasing (n = 72)	SCL Low and stable (n = 2718)	SCL High (n = 27)	SCL High and decreasing (n = 243)	SCL Moderate and increasing (n = 213)	Whole sample
Age	31.1 (4.4)	30.4 (5.1)	30.9 (4.6)	30.7 (4.7)	30.5 (4.9)	31.10 (4.9)	28.4 (5.3)	30.2 (4.6)	29.7 (5.0)	30.9 (4.6)
Education
Secondary school or less	2.3%	11.7%	3.1%	3.7%	6.2%	2.3%	12.5%	6.2%	6.9%	3.0%
High school/vocational	31.7%	45.0%	36.9%	41.1%	41.1%	33.5%	50.0%	37.6%	46.0%	34.7%
University/Polytechnic	61.3%	38.3%	52.3%	48.8%	48.8%	59.8%	33.3%	52.2%	44.1%	58.0%
Doctoral/Licensiate	4.6%	5.0%	7.7%	3.9%	3.9%	4.4%	4.2%	4.0%	3.0%	4.3%
Nulliparity	53.9%	45.8%	46.9%	46.6%	50.0%	50.8%	41.7%	53.4%	62.9%	51.7%
SSRI-medication at 3rd tri	1.6%	14.6%	4.8%	5.1%	11.3%	1.9%	26.1%	8.3%	8.9%	3.1%
Smoking at 3rd tri	3.98%%	17.3%	9.6%	16.0%	9.7%	4.6%	18.5%	9.9%	13.1%	5.7%
Living together with father	97%	94%	95%	90%	92%	97%	89%	92%	92%	96%
Fathers n = 2076	EPDS Low and stable (n = 1475)	EPDS High and stable (n = 66)	EPDS Moderate (n = 307)	EPDS Decreasing (n = 185)	EPDS Increasing (n = 42)	SCL Low and stable (n = 1470)	SCL High (n = 16)	SCL High and decreasing (n = 108)	SCL Moderate and increasing (n = 109)	Whole sample
Age	32.6 (5.3)	33.1 (5.3)	32.6 (5.4)	32.4(6.2)	32.5(5.3)	32.7 (5.3)	31.6 (5.1)	30.9 (5.0)	32.0 (5.7)	32.6 (5.3)
Education
Secondary school or less	3.8%	9.5%	7.2%	6.2%	10.8%	3.9%	14.3%	10.5%	13.1%	4.8%
High school/vocational	42.6%	50.8%	46.8%	44.9%	40.5%	42.8%	64.3%	44.8%	52.3%	43.6%
University/Polytechnic	50.5%	39.7%	44.7%	46.1%	48.6%	50.2%	21.4%	44.8%	34.6%	48.9%
Doctoral/Licensiate	3.2%	0.0%	1.4%	2.8%	0.0%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.7%
SSRI -medication at 1st tri	1.3%	10.9%	2.8%	2.27%	8.1%	1.6%	21.4%	3.8%	5.8%	2.1%