Table 1 Characteristics of participants: the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study.

From: Maternal personality and postpartum mental disorders in Japan: the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study

 

Total (N = 15,012)

Total EPDS scorea

p-valueb

Non-PDS (n = 13,046)

PDS (n = 1966)

Age (years), mean (SD)

31.9 (4.9)

32.0 (4.8)

31.1 (5.0)

 < 0.001

Nulliparous, n (%)

7257 (48.3)

5973 (45.8)

1284 (65.3)

 < 0.001

Cesarean section, n (%)

3465 (23.1)

3008 (23.1)

457 (23.3)

0.85

Educational attainment, n (%)

0.0014

High school or lower

3172 (21.1)

2728 (20.9)

444 (22.6)

 

College

3847 (25.6)

3373 (25.9)

474 (24.1)

 

University or higher

2919 (19.5)

2585 (19.8)

334 (17.0)

 

Missing

5074 (33.8)

4360 (33.4)

714 (36.3)

 

Household income, n (%)

 < 0.001

 ≤ 3.99 million Japanese yen

5346 (35.6)

4490 (34.4)

856 (43.5)

 

4.00–5.99 million Japanese yen

4914 (32.7)

4263 (32.7)

651 (33.1)

 

 ≥ 6.00 million Japanese yen

4752 (31.7)

4293 (32.9)

459 (23.4)

 

Social isolation during pregnancy, n (%)

2892 (19.3)

2313 (17.7)

579 (29.5)

 < 0.001

Dimensions in the EPDS, mean (SD)

Depressed mood

0.30 (0.85)

0.078 (0.33)

1.73 (1.57)

 < 0.001

Anxiety

4.10 (2.26)

3.58 (1.88)

7.55 (1.37)

 < 0.001

Anhedonia

0.18 (0.54)

0.069 (0.31)

0.89 (1.01)

 < 0.001

Subscales of the short-form EPQ-R, mean (SD)

Neuroticism score

5.79 (3.02)

5.44 (2.92)

8.10 (2.62)

 < 0.001

Extraversion score

5.86 (3.28)

6.01 (3.26)

4.86 (3.19)

 < 0.001

Psychoticism score

2.41 (1.57)

2.43 (1.57)

2.27 (1.58)

 < 0.001

Lie score

5.28 (2.37)

5.36 (2.36)

4.74 (2.36)

 < 0.001

  1. EPDS, Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale; EPQ-R, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised; PDS, postpartum depressive symptoms; SD, standard deviation.
  2. aTotal EPDS score was dichotomized into non-PDS (score ≤ 8) and PDS (score ≥ 9).
  3. bObtained using Student's t-test for continuous variables and the chi-square test for categorical variables, comparing non-PDS and PDS groups.