Table 1.

Association between maternal social support Index (MSSI) and prenatal depression.

MSSI				Categories	Depression				p-value
					No		Yes
					N	%	N	%
Who fix meals? Do…				You or no one	146	45.9	172	54.1	<0.001***
				You and someone else	23	48.9	24	51.1
				Someone else	89	65.9	46	34.1
Who does the grocery shopping? Do…				You or no one	15	41.7	21	58.3	0.055
				You and someone else	228	51.4	216	48.6
				Someone else	15	75.0	5	25.0
Who lets your children know what is right or wrong? Do…				You or no one	147	50.9	142	49.1	0.827
				You and someone else	10	47.6	11	52.4
				Someone else	101	53.2	89	46.8
Who fix things around the house or apartment?				You or no one	38	34.9	71	65.1	<0.001***
				You and someone else	164	53.4	143	46.6
				Someone else	56	66.7	28	33.3
Who does the cleaning?				You or no one	129	45.9	152	54.1	<0.001***
				You and someone else	17	39.5	26	60.5
				Someone else	112	63.6	64	36.4
Who pays the bills?				You or no one	8	47.1	9	52.9	0.357
				You and someone else	239	51.2	228	48.8
				Someone else	11	68.8	5	31.3
Who takes your children to the doctor if he/she is sick?				You or no one	114	53.8	98	46.2	0.663
				You and someone else	69	51.1	66	48.9
				Someone else	75	49.0	78	51.0
Who sees to it that your children go to bed?				You or no one	223	51.5	210	48.5	0.705
				You and someone else	12	60.0	8	40.0
				Someone else	23	48.9	24	51.1
In general, would you like to see your relatives…?				You or no one	69	49.6	70	50.4	<0.05*
				You and someone else	39	41.5	55	58.5
				Someone else	150	56.2	117	43.8
Total MSSI score		N	MSSI score mean	Std. deviation	Mean difference		Confidence interval		p -value
Depression	No	258	16.01	6.07	2.05		0.99–3.11		<0.001***
	Yes	242	13.96	6.02

^*Significant;

^***extremely significant.