Correlation between religious coping, demographic and fertility factors, and pregnancy anxiety of Iranian primiparous women: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 The relationship between demographic characteristics and state anxiety in primiparous women (n=300)

Characteristics	State anxiety
Characteristics	Mean (SD)	P-value
Women’s age (years)
<21	38.78 (9.60)
21-25	37.44 (11.17)	^*P= 0.47
26-30	36.93 (8.17)
>30	31.17 (9.73)
^aWomen’s education
< High school	39.71 (10.53)	^**P= 0.001
High school	38.80 (9.64)
Academic	35.64 (8.63)
^bSpouse’s education
< High school	39.68 (10.04)	^**P= 0.01
High school	38.37 (9.84)
Academic	35.86 (8.74)
Woman’s occupation
Housewife	38.01 (9.57)	^***P= 0.07
Employed	35.69 (9.10)	^***P= 0.07
^cSpouse’s occupation
Employee	34.95 (8.24)	^*P= 0.001
Free	37.67 (9.37
Manual worker	40.08 (9.64)
Unemployed	43.84 (26.12)
^dEconomic status
Favorable	35.20 (8.21)	^*P= 0.001
Relatively favorable	41.51 (9.67)
Undesirable	40.28 (11.63)
^eHousing status
owner	35.87 (7.65)	^*P= 0.01
Rent	37.31 (9.47)
Living with the husband’s family	41.20 (11.79)

^*Kruskal–Wallis ^**One way ANOVA ^***Independent t-test
^****The option of living with a female family with low frequency (1) was not considered in the analysis
^aAccording to the Tukey test, the mean state anxiety score of pregnant women with academic degrees was lower than those with less than high school (P = 0.01) and high school (P = 0.02) education
^bAccording to the Tukey test, the mean score of state anxiety of pregnant women who had husbands with academic education was lower than women whose husbands had less than high school education (P = 0.01)
^cThe pairwise comparisons showed that the mean state anxiety score of pregnant women whose husbands were employees was lower than women whose husbands were unemployed (P = 0.01) and manual workers (P = 0.02)
^dThe pairwise comparisons also showed that the mean score of state anxiety of pregnant women with favorable economic status was lower than women with relatively favorable (P = 0.02) and unfavorable (P = 0.001) economic status
^eThe pairwise comparisons revealed that the mean score of state anxiety of pregnant women living in a private home was lower than those living with their husbands’ families (P = 0.01)

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