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Table 1 Characteristics of participants

From: Incidence of and improvement in inappropriate parental behaviors of mothers with young children: a retrospective cohort study conducted in collaboration with a local government

 

N (%)a or

median (min, max)

N = 586

Characteristics of the mothers

 Age

31.0 (19, 53)

 Employment

  Not employed

260 (45.9)

  Employed

306 (54.1)

Characteristics of the fathers

 Age

33.0 (18, 55)

 Employment

  Not employed

2 (0.3)

  Employed

573 (99.7)

Characteristics of the children

 Sex

  Male

310 (52.9)

  Female

276 (47.1)

 Order of birth

  First child

276 (47.1)

  Second child or later

310 (52.9)

 Gestational age at birth

  Less than 37 weeks

26 (4.4)

  37 weeks or more

560 (95.6)

 Birth weight

  Less than 2500 g

44 (7.5)

  2500 g or more

542 (92.5)

  1. For some items, the total does not add up to the number in the top row due to missing data
  2. aThe proportion with the parameter as the number of valid responses among the 586 mothers of infants who are the subject of 3- or 4-month health check-ups