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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of low-risk women in midwife-led care according to planned place of birth

From: Pregnancy related anxiety and general anxious or depressed mood and the choice for birth setting: a secondary data-analysis of the DELIVER study

	Nulliparous n = 1265							Parous n = 1589
	Home		Hospital		Undecided			Home		Hospital		Undecided
Variable	n = 484 (38.3%)		n = 620 (49%)		n = 161 (12.7%)		p	n = 848 (53.4%)		n = 614 (38.6)		n = 127 (8%)		p
Maternal age							<.0001							0.139
< 25	93	19.3	99	16.0	26	16.1		33	3.9	31	5.0	5	3.9
25–34	363	75.2	426	68.7	117	72.7		625	73.8	419	68.2	97	76.4
> 35	27	5.6	95	15.3	18	11.2		189	22.3	164	26.7	25	19.7
SES							<.01							<.01
High	108	22.5	151	24.4	45	28.1		241	28.5	166	27.1	38	29.9
Medium	254	52.9	261	42.1	71	44.4		443	52.3	271	44.3	61	48.0
Low	118	24.6	208	33.5	44	27.5		163	19.2	175	28.6	28	22.0
Education							N.S.							N.S.
Low	58	12.0	83	13.4	23	14.3		127	15.0	118	19.3	20	15.7
Medium	191	39.5	202	32.7	60	37.3		305	36.1	208	34.1	52	40.9
High	235	48.6	333	53.9	78	48.4		414	48.9	284	46.6	55	43.3
Ethnicity							<.0001							<.0001
Dutch	475	98.1	546	88.2	144	89.4		826	97.4	549	89.4	119	93.7
Non-Dutch	9	1.9	73	11.8	17	10.6		22	2.6	65	10.6	8	6.3
Body Mass Index							<.05							N.S.
< 18.50	3	1.2	23	3.8	8	5.0		25	3.0	16	2.6	5	4.0
18.50–24.99	371	77.0	433	70.8	123	76.9		586	69.9	406	67.0	80	64.0
25.00–29.99	87	18.0	122	19.9	22	13.8		179	21.4	136	22.4	28	22.4
30.00–34.99	15	3.1	24	3.9	6	3.8		42	5.0	41	6.8	10	8.0
> 35.00	3	0.6	10	1.6	1	0.6		6	0.7	7	1.2	2	1.6
Previous pregnancy^a							<.05
Yes	50	10.4	97	15.6	20	12.4
No	433	89.6	523	84.4	141	87.6
Gestational age^b							<.0001							<.0001
Mean (SD)	482	21.5/6.8	619	19.9/6.4	159	17.8/5.5		846	21.0/6.5	607	19.8/6.3	125	18.7/6.1
Median (IQR)	482	21 (16–27)		19 (15–24)		17 (14–21)			20 (16–25)		19 (15–24)		18 (14–23)
History of AVD														<.0001
Yes								68	8.0	108	17.6	17	13.4
No								780	92.0	506	82.4	110	86.6
Previous birth place														<.0001
Home								505	61.5	40	6.6	28	22.6
Hospital, midwife-led								54	6.6	177	29.1	25	20.2
Hospital, obstetrician-led								262	31.9	391	64.3	71	57.3

Data shown: no. (%) of women
^aPregnancy loss before 24 weeks of gestation (due to miscarriage or termination of pregnancy)
^bGestational age at the moment of completing the first questionnaire

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