Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of not-at-risk and at-risk mothers 2 months after birth

From: Maternal confidence after birth in at-risk and not-at-risk mothers: internal and external validity of the Danish version of the Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale (KPCS)

	All (n = 695)		Not-at-risk (n = 488)		At-risk (n = 207)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Mother age***^a	30.14	4.00	30.54	3.87	29.09	4.15
Gestational age in weeks	39.71	1.74	40.05	1.16	38.94	2.47
EPDS (0–30)	4.59	3.36	3.46	2.00	7.14	4.29
PSS (0–90)	32.38	7.78	31.20	6.70	35.16	9.33
Background variables	N	%	N	%	N	%
Smoker**^b	28	4	12	2	16	8
Non-smoker**^b	658	95	471	97	187	90
No information	9	1	5	1	4	2
Boy	340	49	228	47	112	54
Girl	350	50	255	52	95	46
No information	5	1	5	1	1	0
Short education (grade 9 or 10)	85	12	0	0	85	41
Long education (>grade 10)	608	87	486	100	122	59
No information	2	0	2	0	0	0

*** p < 0.000; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05; ^a = independent t-test comparing at-risk and not-at-risk mothers; ^b = Chi-square test comparing at-risk and not-at-risk mothers

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