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Table 3 Socio-demographic characteristics of participants at baseline

From: Intervention intended to improve public health professionals’ self-efficacy in their efforts to detect and manage perinatal depressive symptoms among Thai women: a mixed-methods study

Characteristics

Intervention group (n = 33)

Control group (n = 33)

p-value

Age (year)

 Mean (SD)

32.21 (7.60)

40.12 (10.26)

<.01*a

Gender, n (%)

  

.08b

 Male

11 (33.3)

18 (54.5)

 

 Female

22 (66.7)

15 (45.5)

 

Marital status, n (%)

  

.013b

 Single/widowed

20 (60.6)

10 (30.3)

 

 Married

13 (39.4)

23 (69.7)

 

Training for mental health, n (%)

  

0.99b

 Yes

3 (9.1)

4 (12.1)

 

 No

30 (90.9)

29 (87.9)

 

Size of the Sub-district Health Promotion Hospital, n (%)

 

.05c

 Small/medium

26 (78.8)

32 (97.0)

 

 Large

7 (21.2)

1 (3.0)

 

Number of years of work

 Mean (SD)

7.19 (5.38)

11.52 (7.03)

.007*a

Self-efficacy score at baseline

 Mean (SD)

27.36 (3.32)

28.52 (5.46)

0.30a

  1. aobtained by T-test; bobtained by Chi-square test; cobtained by Fisher’s exact test; SD Standard deviation; * statistically significant at 0.05 level