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. 2021 Jan 18;80(2):158–175. doi: 10.1159/000511604

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the families

1 month 3 months
Race/ethnicity (N)
Caucasian
African-American
Hispanic
More than 1 group
97 (85.8%)
9 (8.0%)
2 (1.8%)
5 (4.4%)
70 (86.4%)
5 (6.2%)
2 (2.5%)
4 (4.9%)

Marital status (N)
Married
Engaged
Single
106 (93.8%)
2 (1.8%)
5 (4.4%)
78 (96.4%)
1 (1.2%)
2 (2.5%)

Employment (N)
Outside of home
In school
Full-time mother
50 (44.2%)
4 (3.5%)
59 (52.2%)
32 (39.5%)
2 (2.5%)
47 (58.0%)

Parity (N)
One child
Two children
More than 2 children
43 (38.1%)
44 (38.9%)
26 (23.0%)
26 (32.1%)
35 (43.2%)
20 (25.7%)

Depression and feeding group (N)
Depressed and breastfeeding
Depressed and bottle-feeding
Nondepressed and breastfeeding
Nondepressed and bottle-feeding
14
14
59
26
9
8
49
15

CES-D scores (mean [SD])
Depressed group
Nondepressed group
21.5 (6.60)
6.57 (4.10)
9.56 (5.74)
4.48 (3.73)

Days breastfeeding (mean [SD])
Stable breastfeeding group
Bottle or mixed feeding group
87.15 (11.56)
30.60 (30.69)

CES-D, Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale.