Table 1.

Characteristics of the study sample of first-time parents.

	Participants Questioned about Determinants during Pregnancy (N = 94)		Participants Questioned about Determinants Postpartum (N = 85)
	Women	Men	Women	Men
Sample size (n)	57	37	48	37
Age (years)	30.2 ± 2.5	32.7 ± 3.1	32.2 ± 3.1	33.1 ± 3.0
Body mass index (BMI) (kg/m2)	24.2 ± 4.9 *	26.0 ± 3.5	23.8 ± 5.3 **	24.5 ± 2.7
Education (% of people with higher or university degree)	91.2	78.3	87.5	78.3
Age of first child when completing questionnaire (months)	19.0 ± 46.0	12.6 ± 2.2	13.4 ± 3.6	13.5 ± 3.7

* n = 47 (women expecting their second child not included). ** n = 43 (women expecting their second child not included).