Financial stress as a mediator of the association between maternal childhood adversity and infant birth weight, gestational age, and NICU admission

Table 2 Results from Mediation Models

	NICU	NICU (No outliers)	Gestational Age	Gestational Age (No outliers)	Birth Weight	Birth Weight (No outliers)
	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]
Direct Effect	− 0.03 [-0.16, 0.05]	− 0.17 [-0.25, 0.12]	0.03 [-0.04, 0.11]	0.04 [-0.03, 0.12]	14.48 [-17.91, 47.00]	13.22 [-14.98, 40.06]
Indirect Effect	0.01 [-0.02, 0.08]	0.14 [-0.15, 0.19]	− 0.03 [-0.06, − 0.01]	− 0.03 [-0.06, − 0.01]	-8.85 [-18.60, -1,28]	-7.96 [-17.45, -0.81]
Total Effect	− 0.02 [-0.14, 0.06]	− 0.32 [-0.16, 0.05]	0.003 [-0.07, 0.08]	0.01 [-0.06, 0.09]	5.63 [-27.26, 38.19]	5.26 [-24.67, 32.88]

Note. Bolded values reflect significant results. NICU = neonatal intensive care unit. CI = confidence interval. Nine outliers removed due to low birth weight (n = 3) and macrosomia (n = 6).

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