Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of women enrolled in the Mothers Moving towards Empowerment trial
| Characteristic | Overall | Control | Intervention | p-value** | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Mean (SD)/%* | Median | n | Mean (SD)/%* | Median | n | Mean (SD)/%* | Median | ||
| Number of women enrolled | 59 | 100 | – | 15 | 25.4 | – | 44 | 74.6 | – | – |
| Age | 58 | 27.8 (6.1) | 27 | 15 | 27.4 (6.8) | 30 | 43 | 28 (5.9) | 27 | 0.619 |
| Family income (2018)*** | 31 | 5275.5 (7010.4) | 2000 | 8 | 6062.5 (8064.2) | 2500 | 23 | 5001.7 (6784) | 2000 | 0.885 |
| Number of people in household | 56 | 4.0 (3.1) | 3 | 15 | 4.1 (3.5) | 3 | 41 | 4.0 (3.0) | 3 | 0.713 |
| Relationship status | 0.017 | |||||||||
| Currently in long-term relationship | 20 | 33.9 | 9 | 60.0 | 11 | 25.0 | ||||
| Not currently in long-term relationship | 26 | 44.1 | 3 | 20.0 | 23 | 55.3 | ||||
| Sexual orientation | 0.250 | |||||||||
| Heterosexual/straight | 51 | 86.4 | 12 | 80.0 | 39 | 88.6 | ||||
| Bisexual | 1 | 1.7 | 1 | 6.7 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Education | 0.354 | |||||||||
| Completed high school | 41 | 69.5 | 12 | 80.0 | 29 | 65.9 | ||||
| Did not complete high school | 18 | 30.5 | 3 | 20.0 | 15 | 34.1 | ||||
| Employment | 0.756 | |||||||||
| Employed | 24 | 40.7 | 7 | 46.7 | 17 | 38.6 | ||||
| Not employed | 31 | 52.5 | 7 | 46.7 | 24 | 54.6 | ||||
| Financial strain | 0.507 | |||||||||
| Short of money 1 or more times/month | 15 | 25.4 | 5 | 33.3 | 10 | 22.7 | ||||
| Short of money less than once/month | 42 | 71.2 | 10 | 66.7 | 32 | 72.7 | ||||
| Living situation | 0.624 | |||||||||
| Own or rent home/apartment | 45 | 76.3 | 12 | 80.0 | 33 | 75.0 | ||||
| Staying at home of family member(s) | 9 | 15.3 | 3 | 20.0 | 6 | 13.6 | ||||
| Staying at home of friend(s)/other | 3 | 5.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 6.8 | ||||
*Percentages may not sum to 100 due to missing data; percentages were calculated with denominators of the total n for each group (i.e., 59 for overall, 15 for control, 44 for intervention)
**Continuous p-values are based on the Wilcoxon Rank-sum test and exact probabilities. Categorical p-values are based on Fisher's exact test
***Documented in Botswana pula (BWP)