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2011 The Palm Beach County Family Study (Full Report)

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Table C- 20. Characteristics of Mothers Who Received MCHP Services by Number of TreatmentServices Days a 1–4 5–13 14–3536+ ServiceService Service ServiceMaternal CharacteristicDaysDays Days Days(n=84) (n=52) (n=59) (n=54)% b % % %“At risk” (mothers with score) 47 58 44 46Vital Statistics DataBlack, not Hispanic 39 25 38 34Hispanic 58 70 54 55Foreign-born 62 69 56 59Less than high school diploma 58 68 46 60Unmarried mother 64 80 76 69Teen mother at focal child’s birth 19 24 16 16Baby low birth weight 10 9 14 18No prenatal care, care began 9th month, or17 18 18 37unknown^Mother used tobacco or was unsure if she smoked3 5 6 2during pregnancyMother smoked 9+ cigarettes per day or was unsure 0 5 2 2if she smoked during pregnancy cMother used alcohol — — — —Baby-abnormal conditions 2 3 2 2Survey Data at BaselineGlades 13 15 4 11Number of children (Mean, SD)** 1.8 (0.9) 1.7 (0.8) 1.8 (1.2) 2.4 (1.4)Teen mother at birth of first child 40 47 43 39Lives with husband/partner 72 77 59 75Mother employed 14 7 8 7Living at or below poverty* 57 73 80 83Owns home (self or household member)* 31 8 15 8Focal child special needs* 4 11 18 10Other children special needs* 10 1 10 28Mother has physical/mental health problem* 3 1 7 19Other household member has health problem 11 5 11 19Partner support score (Mean, SD) 5.4 (1.3) 5.6 (1.3) 5.2 (1.7) 5.1 (1.7)<strong>Family</strong>/friend support score (Mean, SD) 4.4 (3.2) 3.5 (2.9) 3.6 (3.4) 3.6 (3.3)Depression: CES-D score > 16 26 26 42 35DCF involvement in child’s first year 5 12 15 13a Data were weighted to adjust for the oversampling of mothers in the Glades and mothers screened “at risk.”b All figures in regular font are percentages; means and standard deviations are italicized.c z-test not completed because at least one column proportion is equal to zero.*Denotes z-test of column proportions (or t-test of means where applicable) statistically significant at p < .10 or lower:prenatal(1) vs. prenatal(4); poverty(1) vs. poverty(3); poverty(1) vs. poverty(4); ownhome(1) vs. ownhome(2); ownhome(1) vs.ownhome(4); focalchild(1) vs. focalchild(3); otherchild(1) vs. otherchild(4); otherchild(2) vs. otherchild(4); otherchild(3) vs.otherchild(4); motherhealth(1) vs. motherhealth(4); motherhealth(2) vs. motherhealth(4).Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago 206

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