Table 2.
Prevalence of a Positive Screening Score by Demographic Characteristics During the Prenatal (n = 1401), Postpartum (n = 611), and Peripartum (n = 1453) Periods, 2009–2017
| Initial prenatal screening |
Initial postpartum screening |
All peripartum screenings |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % (95% CI) | pa | n | % (95% CI) | pa | n | % (95% CI) | pa | |
| Overall | 178 | 12.7 (11.0–14.6) | 58 | 9.5 (7.3–12.1) | 238 | 16.4 (14.5–18.4) | |||
| Age | 0.46 | 0.02 | 0.02 | ||||||
| <20 | 40 | 13.1 (9.5–17.4) | 14 | 12.6 (7.1–20.3) | 55 | 17.4 (13.4–22.0) | |||
| 20–35 | 122 | 12.3 (10.3–14.5) | 32 | 7.4 (5.1–10.3) | 155 | 15.1 (13.0–17.5) | |||
| >35 | 16 | 16.7 (9.8–25.7) | 11 | 16.7 (8.6–27.9) | 27 | 25.7 (17.7–35.2) | |||
| Race | 0.59 | 1 | 0.82 | ||||||
| White | 169 | 12.5 (10.7–14.3) | 56 | 9.5 (7.2–12.1) | 227 | 16.2 (14.3–18.2) | |||
| Non-White | 5 | 15.6 (5.3–32.8) | 1 | 6.7 (0.2–32.0) | 6 | 17.7 (6.8–34.5) | |||
| Ethnicity | 0.12 | 0.02 | 0.03 | ||||||
| Hispanic | 157 | 12.2 (10.4–14.1) | 49 | 8.6 (6.5–11.3) | 209 | 15.6 (13.7–17.7) | |||
| Non-Hispanic | 17 | 17.5 (10.6–26.6) | 8 | 20.5 (9.3–36.5) | 24 | 23.8 (15.9–33.3) | |||
| Primary language | 0.09 | 0.63 | 0.04 | ||||||
| Spanish | 96 | 11.2 (9.1–13.4) | 33 | 8.5 (5.9–11.7) | 128 | 14.4 (12.1–16.9) | |||
| English | 75 | 15.3 (12.2–18.8) | 21 | 10.8 (6.8–16.0) | 99 | 19.6 (16.2–23.3) | |||
| Other | 2 | 11.8 (1.5–36.4) | 1 | 12.5 (0.3–52.7) | 3 | 16.7 (3.6–41.4) | |||
| Trimester | 0.37 | ||||||||
| First | 63 | 11.7 (9.1–14.7) | |||||||
| Second | 72 | 12.5 (9.9–15.5) | |||||||
| Third | 43 | 15.1 (11.1–19.8) | |||||||
EPDS score 10 or above. Bolded text represents statistically significant findings.
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Chi-square tests of independence and, when expected counts were small, Fisher's exact tests were performed.
CI, confidence interval; EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.