Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of users of the midwifery network compared to women, who organised postpartum care themselves
From: Evaluation of a midwifery network to guarantee outpatient postpartum care: a mixed methods study
Characteristics | Whole study population n = 13,241 | Users of the midwifery networka n = 1544 | Women organising postpartum care themselvesa n = 11,697 | p-value |
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Sociodemographic characteristics | ||||
Age in years, md (min-max) | 33 (16–59) | 32 (17–56) | 33 (16–59) | < 0.001 |
Swiss nationality, n (%) | 7202 (55.6) | 479 (31.6) | 6723 (58.7) | < 0.001 |
Living in partnership, (n (%) | 12,682 (98.4) | 1445 (97.0) | 11,237 (98.5) | < 0.001 |
Highest vocational education | < 0.001 | |||
No voc. Education, n (%) | 1408 (11.2) | 374 (25.7) | 1034 (9.3) | |
Apprenticeship/high school education, n (%) | 5793 (46.2) | 587 (40.3 | 5206 (47.0) | |
Higher education/university, n (%) | 5333 (42.6) | 496 (34.0) | 4837 (43.7) | |
Employed, n (%) | 9350 (74.0) | 927 (62.4) | 8423 (75.5) | < 0.001 |
Full time employedb, n (%) | 3243 (37.9) | 406 (48.3) | 2837 (36.8) | < 0.001 |
Obstetric and perinatal characteristic | ||||
Parityc | < 0.001 | |||
First child, n (%) | 4741 (50.3) | 682 (57.0) | 4059 (49.3) | |
Second child, n (%) | 3466 (36.8) | 350 (29.2) | 3116 (37.9) | |
Third child and more, n (%) | 1218 (12.9) | 165 (13.8) | 1053 (12.8) | |
Mode of birth | < 0.001 | |||
Spontanous vaginal, n (%) | 6984 (55.2) | 748 (48.6) | 6236 (56.2) | |
Instrumental vaginal, n (%) | 1208 (9.6) | 138 (9.0) | 1070 (9.6) | |
Caesarean section, n (%) | 4452 (35.2) | 652 (42.4) | 3800 (34.2) | |