Table 1.
Demographics and confounder variables
| Mothers | Partners | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention group (n = 68) | Control group (n = 69) | p-value | Intervention group (n = 45) | Control Group (n = 44) | p-value | |
| Age (mean, SD) | 32.69 (3.37) | 32.23 (3.54) | 0.44 | 35.03 (4.08) | 34.73 (5.67) | 0.79 |
| % married or cohabitating | 94.1 | 95.6 | 0.51 | 95.5 | 97.7 | 0.27 |
| % ≥ higher vocational education | 91.1 | 91.2 | 0.51 | 86.7 | 77.2 | 0.31 |
| Working hours (weekly) | 0.13 | 0.13 | ||||
| employed ≥37 h (%) | 28.3 | 39.8 | 57.8 | 72.8 | ||
| employed 21–36 h (%) | 65.5 | 54.4 | 35.5 | 22.7 | ||
| employed 0–20 h (%) | 1.5 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 1.5 | ||
| no paid employment | 4.5 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 2.3 | ||
| Family incomea (% ≥ 4000 euro) | 52.2 | 60.2 | 0.40 | 57.8 | 56.8 | 0.78 |
| Birth ordera (% 1e kind) | 91.2 | 91.3 | 0.96 | 88.9 | 84.1 | 0.45 |
| # weeks pregnant at inclusion | 28.24 (2.60) | 27.81 (4.18) | 0.45 | 28.20 (2.49) | 27.56 (4.61) | 0.39 |
| Attachment style: avoidance | 11.52 (5.82) | 10.52 (3.93) | 0.25 | 13.52 (6.54) | 12.78 (5.31) | 0.57 |
| Attachment style: anxiety | 16.64 (5.35) | 17.24 (5.79) | 0.54 | 17.49 (6.68) | 17.44 (5.73) | 0.97 |
| Marital satisfaction | 30.97 (4.39) | 31.63 (3.72) | 0.35 | 30.96 (3.87) | 30.93 (3.49) | 0.97 |
| % cesarean section | 9.9 | 11.3 | 0.69 | |||
| Birth weight | 3484.84 (472.94) | 3484.57 (424.02) | 0.99 | |||
| Apgar score 5 min (% ≥7) | 98.4 | 98.3 | 0.23 | |||
| Apgar score 5 min | 9.43 (1.3) | 9.66 (.81) | ||||
adifferences between mothers and partners because not all partners participated in the study