Table 3.
Relation between EPDS Scale and education level, pregnancy complications, support, subjective level of concern/anxiety related to COVID pandemic, concerns about COVID Scale, trimester of pregnancy and psychiatric medical history
| All (n = 1698) |
EPDS Scale | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No depression (n = 1252) |
Possible depression (n = 446) |
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| Education level: % (n) | < 0.001 | |||
| College or higher | 76.0 (1291) | 76.6 (989) | 23.4 (302) | |
| High school | 20.7 (351) | 66.1 (232) | 33.9 (119) | |
| Elementary school or less | 3.3 (56) | 55.4 (31) | 44.6 (25) | |
| Pregnancy complications: % (n) | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 66.1 (1123) | 76.5 (859) | 23.5 (264) | |
| Yes | 33.9 (575) | 68.3 (393) | 31.7 (182) | |
| Support: % (n) | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 43.0 (730) | 56.7 (414) | 43.3 (316) | |
| Yes | 57.0 (968) | 86.6 (838) | 13.4 (130) | |
| Trimester of pregnancy: % (n) | < 0.001 | |||
| 3rd | 57.7 (979) | 70.1 (686) | 29.9 (293) | |
| 2nd | 34.3 (582) | 78.5 (457) | 21.5 (125) | |
| 1st | 8.1 (137) | 79.6 (109) | 20.4 (28) | |
| Psychiatric medical history: % (n) | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 49.1 (834) | 86.3 (720) | 13.7 (114) | |
| Yes, in the past | 30.3 (514) | 69.1 (355) | 30.9 (159) | |
| Yes, at the moment | 6.6 (112) | 63.4 (71) | 36.6 (41) | |
| No, but feel needed at moment | 14.0 (238) | 44.5 (106) | 55.5 (132) | |
| Subjective level of concern/anxiety related to COVID pandemic: M ± SD | 4.33 ± 0.82 | 4.19 ± 0.86 | 4.74 ± 0.52 | < 0.001 |
| Concerns about COVID Scale: M ± SD | 22.57 ± 3.14 | 22.10 ± 3.34 | 23.89 ± 1.98 | < 0.001 |
Tests used to compare variables between EPDS Scale groups: Chi-square test (Education level, Pregnancy complications, Support, Trimester of pregnancy and Psychiatric medical history); t test (Subjective level of concern/anxiety related to COVID pandemic, Concerns about COVID Scale)
M mean, SD standard deviation