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Table 2 Descriptive and average posterior probabilities (APP) for the trajectories (n = 3040)

From: Trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms from the antenatal period to 24-months postnatal follow-up: findings from the 2015 Pelotas birth cohort

Trajectories of depressive symptoms

N (%)

APP (sd)

Parameters

Parameter Estimates

B

(se)

p-value

1 “Low” depressive symptoms

1109 (36.5)

0.84 (0.14)

Intercept

3.210

(0.148)

< 0.001

Linear

−0.085

(0.011)

< 0.001

Quadratic

0.003

(0.000)

< 0.001

2 ‘Moderate low” depressive symptoms

1219 (40.1)

0.78 (0.14)

Intercept

5.687

(0.196)

< 0.001

Linear

−0.068

(0.013)

< 0.001

Quadratic

0.024

(0.002)

< 0.001

Cubic

−0.000

(0.000)

< 0.001

3 “Increasing” depressive symptoms

298 (9.8)

0.73 (0.17)

Intercept

10.232

(0.375)

< 0.001

Linear

0.155

(0.021)

< 0.00

4 “Decreasing-persistent” depressive symptoms

294 (9.7)

0.72 (0.17)

Intercept

11.248

(0.392)

< 0.001

Linear

−0.381

(0.052)

< 0.001

Quadratic

0.040

(0.006)

< 0.001

Cubic

−0.001

(0.000)

< 0.001

5 “High chronic” depressive symptoms

120 (3.9)

0.90 (0.15)

Intercept

15.911

(0.379)

< 0.001

Linear

−0.033

(0.042)

0.432

Quadratic

0.040

(0.007)

< 0.001

Cubic

−0.001

(0.000)

< 0.001