Table 1 Assessment of socioeconomic, lifestyle, environmental, psychosocial and child and birth-related determinants
Social factors | Response options |
|---|---|
Socioeconomic factors (assessed within two days after delivery) | |
Age (years) | |
Single mother | -yes (living alone, divorced, widowed, married but separated) -no (married, living with a partner) |
Health insurance | - statutory - private - other (statutory and additional private, no insurance) |
Maternal educational status | - < 10 years of education (Haupt/Volksschulabschluss) - 10 years of education (Realschulabschluss, Polytechnische Oberschule) - > 10 years of education (Abitur, Fachhochschulreife) - other (other type of graduation, not graduated yet, left school without graduation) |
Employment status before maternity leave | - employed (fulltime employed, part time employed) - unemployed |
Occupational group | - employee - worker - in training - self-employed - civil servant - graduate in liberal profession |
Migration background | - yes - no |
Psychosocial factors (assessed within two days after delivery) | |
Social support index (F-Sozu)1 | 1–5 |
Psychosocial factors (assessed four weeks after delivery) | |
Subjective position within society (Mac Arthur-Scale) | 1–10 |
Experienced social and emotional strains | - yes - no |
PSI2 | |
- Personal limitations | 4–20 |
- Parental competence | 4–20 |
- Parent-child bond | 4–20 |
Environmental and lifestyle factors (assessed four weeks after delivery) | |
Size of current residence (m2) | |
Persons living in the household | |
Humidity stains on the walls | - yes - no |
Smoker inside the house | - yes - no |
Drinking alcohol 1 year before pregnancy | - yes - no |
Drinking alcohol during pregnancy | - yes - no |
Drinking alcohol since delivery | - yes - no |
Smoker lifetime (> 100 cigarettes) | - yes - no |
Smoking during pregnancy | - yes - no |
Smoking since delivery | - yes - no |
Lifestyle factors (assessed within two days after delivery) | |
BMI | - underweight (> 18.4 kg/m2) - normal (18.5–24.9 kg/m2) - overweight (20.1–29.9 kg/m2) - obese (> 30 kg/m2) |
Physical activity | - regularly: more than 1 h per week - none or rather seldom: less than 1 h per week |
Diet | - healthy: vegetables (not boiled) and/or fruits almost every day - rather unhealthy |
Health care utilization (assessed within two days after delivery) | |
Doctors’ consultations during pregnancy | |
History of psychiatric diseases (depression, ADHD, anorexia, bulimia, panic attack) | - yes - no |
History of somatic diseases (allergy, asthma, atopic dermatitis, Crohn’s disease, Colitis ulcerosa, psoriasis, psoriasis arthritis, rheumatic arthritis, other autoimmune diseases, diabetes, liver- or kidney diseases, thyroid diseases, cancer, thrombosis, arrythmia, heart attack, heart failure, hypertension, pyelonephritis, metabolic diseases, migraine, multiple sclerosis, peripheral nerve paralysis, epilepsy, meningitis, encephalitis) | - yes - no |
Birth related factors (assessed within two days after delivery) | |
Birth mode | |
First child | - yes - no |
Preterm delivery | - yes - no |
Season of birth | - winter (September–February) - summer (March–August) |
Child related factors (assessed four weeks after delivery) | |
AS child health | 1–100 |
Breastfeeding | - yes - no |