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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristic of participants at baseline

From: Effects of midwife-led maternity services on postpartum wellbeing and clinical outcomes in primiparous women under China’s one-child policy

Characteristic

Total n = 1568

OMCa group n = 1117

MCDb group n = 279

CMCc group n = 172

P

Maternal age [M(SD)] d

28.52 (3.59)

28.47 (3.74)

28.12 (3.33)

29.53 (2.77)

< 0.001***

Ethnicity n(%)e

 Han

1503 (95.9)

1069 (95.7)

266 (95.3)

168 (97.7)

0.431

 Non-Han

65 (4.1)

48 (4.3)

13 (4.7)

4 (2.3)

 

Education n(%)e

 College or university

1173 (74.8)

832 (74.5)

176 (63.1)

16,595.9

< 0.001***

 Middle school

303 (19.4)

224 (20.1)

73 (26.2)

6 (3.9)

 

 Primary school or below

92 (5.8)

61 (5.5)

30 (10.8)

1 (0.2)

 

Vacation n(%)e

 Company employee

338 (21.6)

233 (20.9)

82 (29.4)

23 (13.4)

< 0.001***

 Private owner

108 (6.9)

87 (7.8)

12 (4.3)

9 (5.2)

 

 Technician and liberal profession

642 (40.9)

449 (40.2)

96 (34.4)

97 (56.4)

 

 Unemployed

291 (18.6)

210 (18.8)

61 (21.9)

20 (11.6)

 

 Others

189 (12.1)

138 (12.4)

28 (10.0)

23 (13.4)

 

Multiple Gestation n(%)e

 No

1171 (74.7)

855 (76.5)

194 (69.5)

122 (72.6)

0.055

 Yes

397 (25.3)

266 (23.5)

85 (30.5)

46 (27.4)

 

Method of payment n(%)e

 Self-payment

512 (32.7)

368 (32.9)

120 (43.0)

24 (14.0)

0.001**

 Government insurance

707 (45.1)

501 (44.9)

105 (37.6)

101 (58.7)

 

 Private insurance

349 (22.3)

248 (22.2)

54 (19.4)

47 (27.3)

 
  1. aObstetrician-led Maternity Care
  2. bMidwife-led Care at Delivery
  3. cContinuity of Midwife-led Care
  4. dOne-way ANOVA
  5. ePearson’s chi-squared test
  6. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01,***p < 0.001