Factors associated with employment status before and during pregnancy: Implications for studies of pregnancy outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Potential confounding or effect modification by employment status is frequently overlooked in pregnancy outcome studies.

Methods

To characterize how employed and non-employed women differ, we compared demographics, behaviors, and reproductive histories by maternal employment status for 8,343 mothers of control (non-malformed) infants in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (1997-2007) and developed a multivariable model for employment status anytime during pregnancy and the 3 months before conception.

Results

Sixteen factors were independently associated with employment before or during pregnancy, including: maternal age, pre-pregnancy body mass index, pregnancy intention, periconceptional/first trimester smoking and alcohol consumption, and househol

SUBMITTER: Rocheleau CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7191326 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature