Table 1.

Characteristics of CCHN Sample Mothers by Race/Ethnicity and Poverty Status

	African Americans (n=1,029)	Whites (n=429)	Latinas (n=450)	P-values Differences by race/ethnicity	Poor (n= 816)	Near Poor (n=529)	Not Poor (n=563)	P-values Differences by poverty
Baseline Demographics
Age (mean±SD)	24.3 ± 5.0	29.7 ± 6.0	25.8 ± 5.2	<0.001	23.7 ± 4.3	24.9 ± 5.1	29.9 ± 5.9	<0.001
Poverty status (%)
poor	53.5	19.8	40.0	<0.001	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
near poor	25.1	17.0	44.0		N/A	N/A	N/A
not poor	21.4	63.2	16.0		N/A	N/A	N/A
Education (%)
< High school graduate	15.8	5.4	35.1	<0.001	26.5	20.8	3.2	<0.001
High school graduate	49.7	24.5	44.4		52.6	50.1	21.7
Some college	26.0	23.1	12.4		16.7	23.3	29.0
College graduate or more	6.4	44.1	5.1		1.6	4.5	42.8
Other, No information	2.1	3.0	2.9		2.7	1.3	3.4
Marital status (%)
Married	13.9	67.6	40.5	<0.001	15.3	25.9	63.6	<0.001
Not married, in relationship	56.9	25.7	49.7		58.0	55.0	27.0
Not married, not in relationship	29.2	6.7	9.8		26.7	19.1	9.4
Pregnancy-Related Factors (%)
Any prior pregnancy	50.6	52.2	67.3	<0.001	54.3	57.1	53.8	0.494
Gestational diabetes	4.6	5.0	6.5	0.313	4.5	5.4	5.8	0.540
Pre-eclampsia	11.3	3.5	4.2	<0.001	8.9	8.0	5.8	0.126
Infant Health and Feeding (%)
Preterm (<37 wks)	12.1	11.7	12.1	0.971	11.6	10.1	14.3	0.101
Low Birthweight (<2500 gms)	12.4	8.0	7.3	0.007	10.6	9.3	10.1	0.778
Very Low Birthweight (<1500 gms)	2.3	0.9	1.9	0.297	1.6	1.6	2.7	0.349
Ever breastfed baby	59.5	79.8	88.5	<0.001	60.8	72.6	84.2	<0.001
Breastfeeding at 6 mo	51.2	73.1	63.9	<0.001	49.7	59.0	73.5	<0.001