A pilot study to understand feasibility and acceptability of stool and cord blood sample collection for a large-scale longitudinal birth cohort

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of women who consented to participate, and the proportion providing ≥1 sample

	All		Sample given		P-value
Characteristic	n	%	n	%
Woman’s ethnicity^a
White	130	78	85	65
Asian	12	7	8	67
Black	14	8	11	79
Mixed/Chinese/other	10	6	5	50
Total	166	–	109	–	0.56
Parity^a
0	86	51	57	66
1	63	37	42	67
>1	20	12	14	70
Total	169	–		–	1.00
Mode of delivery^a
Vaginal	95	57	51	54
Unassisted	70	42	35	50
Forceps	15	9	11	73
Ventouse	10	6	5	50
Planned pre-labour caesarean	48	29	47	98
Intrapartum caesarean	25	15	15	60
Total	168	–	113	–	< 0.001
Woman given antibiotics at any time^a
Yes	68		59	87
No	39		33	85
Total	107		92	–	0.76
Infant given antibiotics^a
Yes	12		11	92
No	117		91	78
Total	129		102	–	0.26

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