Perinatal health care access, childbirth concerns, and birthing decision-making among pregnant people in California during COVID-19

Whipps, Mackenzie D. M.; Phipps, Jennifer E.; Simmons, Leigh Ann

doi:10.1186/s12884-021-03942-y

Table 3 Independent models predicting healthcare access, childbirth concerns, and childbirth decisionmaking (n = 820)

From: Perinatal health care access, childbirth concerns, and birthing decision-making among pregnant people in California during COVID-19

Predicting perinatal healthcare access
	β (Std. Err.)	p-value	Sig.	Cohen’s D
I schedule extra prenatal visits if concerned
Minoritization (POC)	0.06 (.12)	0.617		0.05
Hispanic ethnicity	0.16 (.13)	0.233		0.11
Difficulty paying bills	−0.02 (.05)	0.740		−0.01
I seek care for health issues outside pregnancy
Minoritization (POC)	−0.11 (.13)	0.415		−0.07
Hispanic ethnicity	−0.32 (.14)	0.021	*	−0.22
Difficulty paying bills	0.10 (.06)	0.067	t	0.07
	AOR (Std. Err.)	p-value	Sig.
Provider has begun remote visits
Minoritization (POC)	0.83 (.15)	0.311
Hispanic ethnicity	1.07 (.21)	0.710
Difficulty paying bills	1.06 (.08)	0.451
Provider has reduced number of prenatal visits
Minoritization (POC)	0.75 (.15)	0.158
Hispanic ethnicity	0.82 (.17)	0.342
Difficulty paying bills	1.29 (.1)	< 0.001	***
Predicting concerns about childbirth healthcare access
	β (Std. Err.)	p-value	Sig.	Cohen’s D
I worry about missing support person during birth
Minoritization (POC)	−0.02 (.11)	0.851		−0.02
Hispanic ethnicity	0.07 (.12)	0.567		0.05
Difficulty paying bills	0.18 (.05)	< 0.001	***	0.13
I worry about provider being unavailable during birth
Minoritization (POC)	−0.13 (.1)	0.185		−0.11
Hispanic ethnicity	0.01 (.1)	0.899		0.01
Difficulty paying bills	0.17 (.04)	< 0.001	***	0.14
I worry provider won’t have resources during birth
Minoritization (POC)	−0.24 (.08)	0.006	**	−0.22
Hispanic ethnicity	−0.20 (.09)	0.028	*	−0.18
Difficulty paying bills	0.19 (.04)	< 0.001	**	0.17
Predicting childbirth decision-making
	β (Std. Err.)	p-value	Sig.	Cohen’s D
I am thinking about not having my baby in a hospital
Minoritization (POC)	−0.01 (.09)	0.922		−0.01
Hispanic ethnicity	−0.13 (.1)	0.163		−0.13
Difficulty paying bills	0.14 (.04)	< 0.001	***	0.13
	AOR (Std. Err.)	p-value	Sig.
Planned out-of-hospital birth
Minoritization (POC)	1.14 (.43)	0.734
Hispanic ethnicity	0.43 (.21)	0.082	t
Difficulty paying bills	0.97 (.16)	0.850

In addition to constructs of interest, all models control for maternal age, essential worker status, urbanicity, and parity
^tp < 0.10, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

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