Table 1.
Socio-demographic variables of pregnant women
| Variables | N (%)a | Health literacy | Empowerment‡ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SDb) | P-value | Mean (SDb) | P-value | ||
| Total | 353 (100) | 80.03 (12.79) | - | 80.30 (8.14) | - |
| Education | |||||
| Illiteracy and elementary | 40 (11.3) | 79.68 (17.07) | 78.36 (10.11) | ||
| Middle and high school | 213 (60.3) | 79.71 (12.81) | 0.772* * | 81.38 (8.32) | 0.012* * |
| Academic | 100 (28.3) | 80.81 (10.72) | 78.80 (6.40) | ||
| Education of husband | |||||
| Illiteracy and elementary | 44 (12.5) | 77.81 (18.39) | 81.57 (10.24) | ||
| Middle and high school | 215 (60.9) | 80.36 (12.31) | 0.513* * | 80.59 (8.28) | 0.205* * |
| Academic | 94 (26.6) | 80.25 (10.84) | 79.03 (6.56) | ||
| Employment | |||||
| Employed | 57 (16.1) | 77.59 (16.19) | 0.113†† | 78.98 (8.04) | 0.202†† |
| Housewife | 296 (83.9) | 80.53 (11.93) | 80.56 (8.15) | ||
| Type of husband employment | |||||
| Worker | 93 (26.3) | 78.43 (14.88) | 81.83 (9.07) | ||
| Employee | 63 (17.8) | 81.15 (9.49) | 0.357* * | 79.10 (5.88) | 0.106* * |
| Othersc | 197 (55.8) | 80.43 (12.76) | 80.00 (8.27) | ||
| Status of family economic | |||||
| Moderate | 215 (61.1) | 80.32 (11.83) | 80.19 (7.66) | ||
| High | 46 (13.1) | 78.21 (16.87) | 0.564* * | 78.44 (6.91) | 0.111* * |
| Low | 91 (25.9) | 80.54 (12.44) | 81.59 (9.59) | ||
| History of illness in pregnancy | |||||
| Yes | 16 (4.5) | 79.14 (12.06) | 0.556†† | 79.12 (7.50) | 0.242†† |
| No | 337 (95.5) | 80.22 (12.92) | 80.53 (8.26) | ||
| Number of Pregnancy | |||||
| 1 | 162 (45.9) | 79.52 (13.81) | 80.14 (7.73) | ||
| 2 | 132 (37.4) | 79.05 (12.54) | 0.059* * | 80.33 (8.19) | 0.920* * |
| ≥ 3 | 59 (16.7) | 83.74 (9.15) | 80.66 (9.22) | ||
| History of infertility | |||||
| Yes | 19 (5.4) | 74.15 (9.72) | 0.044†† | 75.44 (5.36) | 0.009†† |
| No | 334 (94.6) | 80.36 (12.85) | 80.58 (8.19) | ||
| Mean (SDb) | r | P-value‡‡ | r | P-value‡‡ | |
| Age | 29.68 (5.86) | -0.032 | 0.558 | -0.190 | 0.001 |
| Duration of marriage | 7.08 (5.02) | 0.031 | 0.576 | -0.21 | 0.001 |
| Body mass index | 27.94 (3.79) | -0.019 | 0.728 | -0.032 | 0.560 |
aN (%): Number (percent); bSD Standard Deviation; cOthers refer to Freelancer jobs; Score range of health literacy is between 0 to 100; ‡ Score range of empowerment is between 27 to 108; * *One-way ANOVA; †† Independent t-test; ‡‡ Pearson correlation test