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Table 1 Prognostic factors

From: Improving return-to-work after childbirth: design of the Mom@Work study, a randomised controlled trial and cohort study

 

T0

T1

T2

T3

T4

T5

Pregnancy-related factors:

      

Complaints and sick leave during pregnancy

x

x

x

   

Previous pregnancies: birth dates, complaints and sick leave

x

     

Fertility

x

     

Delivery: duration, at home or in hospital, experience, complications and amount of rest after delivery

  

x

   

Maternity and parental leave; length, satisfaction

  

x

x

 

x

Breastfeeding: length and experience at work with breastfeeding or expressing milk and facilities at work

  

x

x

x

x

Work-related factors:

      

Work characteristics: function, number of working hours a week, working days, physical demands, extra work, travel time, shift work, adaptation of working hours or work tasks and work satisfaction

x

  

x

  

Decision authority, skill discretion, psychological demands, social support of executive and colleges; Job Content Questionnaire [32,33]

x

   

x

 

Total workload; hours a week spend on household, gardening, cycling, walking, biking, sport and odd jobs

 

x

x

x

x

x

Looking forward to returning to work

  

x

x

  

Work performance; World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ) [34], also be measured at 18, 30, 36, 42, and 48 weeks after delivery (see outcome assessments, costs)

    

x

x

Child-related factors:

      

Rang order child

x

     

Birth weight child

  

x

   

Health of child

  

x

x

x

x

Temperament of child; Childcare Stress Inventory [35,36]

  

x

x

  

Childcare: childcare arrangement and changes in childcare during past year

  

x

x

x

x

Psycho-Social factors:

      

Daily hassles; short version of the Everyday Problems Checklist (EPCL) [37,38]

 

x

 

x

  

Social support of supervisor, colleagues, spouse, family and friends; Social Support List [39-41]

 

x

x

 

x

x

Norms about childcare and work; statements from a report of The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute NIDI [42]

 

x

   

x

Coping; Utrecht Coping List (UCL) [43,44]

 

x

    

Locus of health control; Multidimensional Health Locus of Control List (MHLCL) [45].

 

x

    

Life events

 

x

x

x

x

x

Difficulty of leaving child at home or day-care, when the mother is working

  

x

x

x

 

Health-related factors:

      

Body weight and body height

x

 

x

x

x

x

Smoking behaviour and alcohol intake

x

     

Sleep quality

 

x

x

x

x

x

Co-existent chronic diseases

 

x

    

(pregnancy-related) pelvic girdle pain (see outcome cohort study)

 

x

x

x

x

x

PPGP aspects: pain during rest, pain at beginning of movement, pain peak, diagnosis and treatment

 

x

x

x

  

Fatigue (see outcome cohort study)

 

x

x

x

x

x

Depression (see outcome cohort study)

 

x

x

x

x

x

Pain catastrophizing; Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) [46,47]

 

x

    

Fear of movement; Tampa scale of Kinesiophopbia (TSK) [48]

  

x

   
  1. T0 = baseline, between 12 weeks and 30 weeks pregnancy, T1 = 30 weeks pregnancy, T2= 6 weeks postpartum (pp), T3 = 12 weeks pp, T4 = 24 weeks pp, T5 52 weeks pp
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