Table 1 Characteristics of the participating mothers
From: Pressure to provide milk among mothers of very low birth weight infants: an explorative study
Characteristics | n (%) |
|---|---|
Maternal educational level | |
 Without a graduation | 10 (1,93%) |
 Lower secondary school | 46 (8,88%) |
 Secondary school | 114 (22,01%) |
 Higher education entrance qualification | 124 (23,94%) |
 University degree | 213 (41,12%) |
 Missing | 11 (2,12%) |
Previous experience with pumping | |
 Yes | 97 (18,73%) |
 No | 419 (80,89%) |
 Missing | 2 (0,39%) |
Milk volume 14 days p.p | |
 < 300ml/day | 196 (37,84%) |
 301-500ml/day | 115 (22,20%) |
 5001-700ml/day | 77 (14,86%) |
 701-800ml/day | 44 (8,49%) |
 > 801ml/day | 68 (13,13%) |
 Missing | 18 (3,37%) |
Availability of donor milk at the hospital | |
 Yes | 121 (22,7%) |
 No | 403 (75,61%) |
 Missing | 9 (1,69%) |
|  | (n [mean (min–max)] |
Maternal age | 487 [34.1 (19–54)] |
PSS:NICU (subscale parental role alteration) | 427 [3.8 (1–5)] |
Cronbach´s alpha | 0.8601 |