Stress matters! Psychophysiological and emotional loadings of pregnant women undergoing fetal magnetic resonance imaging

Table 4 Different categorizations of all 60 subjects were performed ahead of statistical analysis

Groups	N	Age (mean)	GW (mean)
Accompanying person
Yes	35	30.8	26.5
No	25	29.3	26.5
Prenatal Diagnosis
No fetal malformation (1)	10	35.3**	25.2
Fetal pathology compatible with survival (2)	35	29.1	27.0
Fetal pathology probably not compatible with survival (3)	15	28.4	26.3
Stress-regulation-strategy
Below average strategies	11	29.3	26.0
Average strategies	30	30.2	26.5
Above average strategies	19	30.0	26.9

An overview of these three groups and inherent subgroups is given in this table indicating number of subjects (N), mean age and mean gestational week (GW). For the variable accompanying person groups neither differed in age (p = 0.363) nor gestational week (p = 0.996) or diagnosis. Analysis for prenatal diagnosis revealed no difference in gestational week (F(2,57) = 0.573, p = 0.567); but patients in group 1 were significantly older compared to both other groups, (1 vs. 2: p = 0.008; 1 vs. 3: p = 0.001), while group 2 and 3 did not differ (p = 0.703). For stress-regulation strategy groups neither differed in age (F(2,57) = 0.129, p = 0.879) nor gestational week (F(2,57) = 0.083, p = 0.920). Significant differences are marked in the table with **.

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