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Table 5 Characteristics of screened women (n = 1234)

From: BReastfeeding Attitude and Volume Optimization (BRAVO) trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

 

Excluded N = 707

Included N = 527

P value

Age

31.3 (5.7)

30.3 (5.9)

0.301

Socioeconomic status

  

<0.0012

 Low

78 (12.7)

117 (22.9)

 

 Middle

432 (70.5)

358 (70.1)

 

 High

103 (16.8)

36 (7)

 

Number of pregnancy

  

0.702

 1

233 (37.8)

212 (41.2)

 

 2

218 (35.3)

173 (33.7)

 

 3

112 (18.2)

87 (16.9)

 

 >3

54 (8.8)

42 (8.2)

 

Working mother

213 (34.6)

152 (29.7)

0.082

Blue-collar job

49 (23.9)

55 (37.7)

0.0062

Previous breastfeeding

310 (43.8)

248 (47.1)

0.142

  1. Values are means with standard deviations for continuous variables and percentages for frequencies. In case of skewed data (*), the median with the interquartile range was presented
  2. 1Independent samples t-test, 2Chi-Square test