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Table 2 Participants characteristics by anticipatory and sudden event types

From: Dads in Distress: symptoms of depression and traumatic stress in fathers following poor fetal, neonatal, and maternal outcomes

Characteristic

Overall

Anticipatory

Sudden

(n=27)

(n=13)

(n=14)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Age (years, mean (SD))

33 (6.5)

31 (7.3)

35 (5.3)

Ethnicity

 Caucasian

25 (92.6)

12 (92.3)

13 (92.9)

 Southeast Asian

2 (7.4)

1 (7.7)

1 (7.1)

Employment status (n=25)

 Employed

19 (76.0)

9 (81.8)

10 (71.4)

 Unemployed

6 (24.0)

2 (18.2)

4 (28.6)

Nature of complication

 Fetal

23 (85.2)

11 (84.6)

12 (85.7)

 Fetal and maternal

1 (3.7)

1 (7.7)

0 (0.0)

 Maternal

3 (11.1)

1 (7.7)

2 (14.3)

Number of other children in household (n=23)

 None

5 (21.7)

3 (27.3)

2 (16.7)

 1

9 (39.1)

6 (54.5)

3 (25.0)

 2

5 (21.7)

2 (18.2)

3 (25.0)

 3 or more

4 (17.4)

0 (0.0)

4 (33.3)