Table 2.
Participant baseline characteristics
| Characteristic | Total sample (N = 31) |
Intervention (n = 15) |
Control (n = 16) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | N (%) | M | SD | N (%) | M | SD | N (%) | |
| Age | 29.6 | 4.1 | 29.7 | 3.7 | 29.6 | 4.5 | |||
| Gestational age at enrollment (weeks) | 10.2 | 1.7 | 10.3 | 1.6 | 10.1 | 1.7 | |||
| Weight at study enrollment (kg) | 89.9 | 20.2 | 87.2 | 19.8 | 92.4 | 21.0 | |||
| Pre-pregnancy weight (kg) | 88.9 | 21.0 | 86.4 | 20.0 | 91.2 | 22.4 | |||
| Pre-pregnancy BMI | 32.6 | 7.2 | 32.4 | 7.6 | 32.7 | 7.0 | |||
| Overweight | 16 (52) | 9 (60) | 7 (44) | ||||||
| Obese | 15 (48) | 6 (40) | 9 (56) | ||||||
| Race | |||||||||
| Caucasian/white | 30 (97) | 14 (93) | 16 (100) | ||||||
| Asian | 1 (3) | 1 (7) | 0 (0) | ||||||
| Employment | |||||||||
| Full time | 27 (87) | 13 (87) | 14 (88) | ||||||
| Self-employed | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 1 (6) | ||||||
| Unemployed | 1 (3) | 1 (7) | 0 (0) | ||||||
| Stay at home mom | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 1 (6) | ||||||
| Homemaker | 1 (3) | 1 (7) | 0 (0) | ||||||
| Education | |||||||||
| High school | 3 (10) | 1 (7) | 2 (13) | ||||||
| College | 14 (45) | 8 (53) | 6 (38) | ||||||
| Grad/professional | 14 (45) | 6 (40) | 8 (50) | ||||||
| Family income | |||||||||
| $10–20,000 | 1 (3) | 1 (7) | 0 (0) | ||||||
| $20–40,000 | 8 (26) | 1 (7) | 7 (44) | ||||||
| $40–100,000 | 12 (39) | 8 (53) | 4 (25) | ||||||
| > $100,000 | 10 (32) | 5 (33) | 5 (31) | ||||||
| Marital status | |||||||||
| Single | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 1 (6) | ||||||
| Married | 26 (84) | 13 (87) | 13 (81) | ||||||
| Living w/partner | 3 (10) | 1 (7) | 2 (13) | ||||||
| Divorced | 1 (3) | 1 (7) | 0 (0) | ||||||
| Parity | |||||||||
| Nulliparous | 22 (71) | 9 (60) | 13 (81) | ||||||
| Primiparous | 9 (29) | 6 (40) | 3 (19) | ||||||
M mean, SD standard deviation, BMI body mass index