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Table 3 Health beliefs stratified by preconceptional lifestyle behaviours among planned pregnancies

From: Planning is not equivalent to preparing, how Dutch women perceive their pregnancy planning in relation to preconceptional lifestyle behaviour change - a cross-sectional study

 

Folic acid supplement use

Alcohol use

Smoking

Started PCC ≥ 4 weeks

Started prenatal

Never started

P-value

No PCC use

Quit PCC

Quit later/ did not quit

P-value

No PCC smoking

Quit PCC

Quit later/ did not quit

P-value

N = 640

N = 248

N = 30

 

N = 286

N = 170

N = 461

 

N = 829

N = 18

N = 73

 

Knowledge

  Visited PCC-consult

217 (33.9)

42 (16.9)

5 (16.7)

 <  0.001

89 (31.1)

56 (32.9)

119 (25.8)

0.122

238 (28.7)

7 (38.9)

20 (27.4)

0.621

  Retrieved PCC-information

483 (75.5)

122 (49.2)

14 (46.7)

 <  0.001

194 (67.8)

135 (79.4)

290 (62.9)

 <  0.001

566 (68.3)

14 (82.4)

41 (56.9)

0.043

  Knew where to find PCC-information

531 (83.0)

207 (83.5)

27 (90.0)

0.610

235 (82.2)

138 (81.2)

391 (85.0)

0.412

693 (83.6)

14 (77.8)

30 (82.2)

0.764

Health Beliefsa

  Pregnancy is not something you can plan

259 (40.5)

102 (41.1)

18 (60.0)

0.105

127 (44.4)

60 (35.3)

191 (41.4)

0.161

337 (40.7)

7 (38.9)

37 (50.7)

0.243

  Important to keep wish to conceive private

234 (36.6)

94 (37.9)

11 (36.7)

0.933

117 (40.9)

64 (37.6)

158 (34.3)

0.185

316 (38.1)

4 (22.2)

21 (28.8)

0.119

  Comfortable discussing wish to conceive

348 (54.4)

129 (52.0)

12 (40.0)

0.274

140 (49.0)

94 (55.3)

257 (55.7)

0.171

433 (52.2)

13 (72.2)

45 (61.6)

0.082

  "We'll see what happens"

359 (56.1)

184 (74.2)

21 (70.0)

 <  0.001

172 (60.1)

85 (50.0)

306 (66.4)

0.001

504 (60.8)

8 (44.4)

54 (74.0)

0.028

  Romantic trying to conceive

387 (60.5)

144 (58.1)

23 (76.7)

0.143

164 (57.3)

114 (67.1)

275 (59.7)

0.112

511 (61.6)

10 (55.6)

35 (47.9)

0.066

  PCC important for every woman

539 (84.2)

172 (69.4)

26 (86.7)

 <  0.001

231 (80.8)

146 (85.9)

359 (77.9)

0.078

673 (81.2)

14 (77.8)

51 (69.9)

0.069*

  PCC especially important for first pregnancies

242 (37.8)

118 (47.6)

12 (40.0)

0.029

116 (40.6)

71 (41.8)

183 (39.7)

0.892

333 (40.2)

7 (38.9)

33 (45.2)

0.695

  Influence of a healthy PCC lifestyle

232 (36.3)

63 (25.4)

14 (46.7)

0.003

111 (38.8)

64 (37.6)

135 (29.3)

0.014

284 (34.4)

8 (44.4)

18 (24.7)

0.156

  Influence of partners PCC healthy lifestyle

318 (49.7)

91 (36.7)

16 (53.3)

0.002

145 (50.7)

90 (52.9)

188 (40.8)

0.004

397 (47.9)

6 (33.3)

22 (30.1)

0.008

  Influence of a healthy lifestyle in pregnancy

582 (90.9)

221 (89.1)

24 (80.0)

0.122

246 (86.0)

153 (90.0)

427 (92.6)

0.013

752 (90.7)

15 (83.3)

62 (84.9)

0.177

  Looking up PCC-information is stressful

62 (9.7)

25 (10.1)

4 (13.3)

0.725*

37 (12.9)

19 (11.2)

35 (7.6)

0.051

80 (9.7)

3 (16.7)

8 (11.0)

0.487*

  Too many rules for a healthy pregnancy

190 (29.7)

92 (37.1)

12 (40.0)

0.067

79 (27.6)

56 (32.9)

158 (34.3)

0.158

256 (30.9)

6 (33.3)

33 (45.2)

0.042

  Healthy enough for a PCC

273 (42.7)

143 (57.7)

23 (76.7)

 <  0.001

127 (44.4)

75 (44.1)

236 (51.2)

0.122

397 (47.9)

8 (44.4)

35 (47.9)

0.998

  1. Numbers (%), PCC Preconception Care
  2. aAgree or strongly agree with this health belief
  3. *P-value by the Fishers Exact test