Table 2.
Daily intake of natural health products by APrON participants
| First trimester (n = 136) | Second trimester (n = 575) | Third trimester (n = 516) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural health products | n (%)* | Natural health products | n (%)* | Natural health products | n (%)* | P † |
| Multivitamin/mineral | 132 (97)a | Multivitamin/mineral | 551 (95)a | Multivitamin/mineral | 475 (92)b | 0.009 ‡ |
| Single nutrient | 62 (45)a | Single nutrient | 270 (46)a | Single nutrient | 284 (55)b | 0.015 ‡ |
| Herbal products | 13 (9) | Herbal products | 52 (9) | Herbal products | 31 (6) | 0.128 |
| Essential fatty acids | 15 (11)a | Essential Fatty Acids | 76 (13)a | Essential Fatty Acids | 93 (18)b | 0.033 ‡ |
| Homeopathic remedies | 2 (1) | Homeopathic remedies | 9 (1) | Homeopathic remedies | 4 (0.7) | 0.476 |
| Probiotics | 6 (4) | Probiotics | 18 (3) | Probiotics | 20 (3) | 0.691 |
| No NHP intake | 0 | No NHP intake | 10 (1) | No NHP intake | 13 (1) | 0.148 |
APrON, Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition; NHP, natural health product. *Column percentages do not always add up to 100% as some participants reported the use of ≥ 1 different natural health products. † P values for Chi‐square statistic. ‡Values within a row with different superscripts are significantly different.