Clinical Features and Correlates of Outcomes for High-Risk, Marginalized Mothers and Newborn Infants Engaged with a Specialist Perinatal and Family Drug Health Service

Table 1

Demographic and psychosocial characteristics.

Characteristics	Result	National data
Maternal age at delivery, years	28.7	29.9*
% ATSI^†	40 (28.8)	3.8**
% Australian-born	85.6	75.2**
% Currently in relationship	72 (51.8)	—
% Unemployed	111 (90.6)	—
% Reporting mental health issues	38 (27.3)	—
% Reporting domestic violence	19 (13.7)	—
% Currently homeless	11 (7.9)	—
% Reporting previous DoCS^†† involvement	49 (35.3)	—
% Have previous child in kinship/foster care	58.9	—
Parity
None	37.4	41.6*
One	30.9	33.5*
Two	17.3	15.4*
Three	4.3	5.5*
Four or more	10.1	3.8*

Study data presented as number (%); data from national data presented as % only unless otherwise stated.
* 𝑝 value < 0.05; **𝑝 value < 0.001.
^†ATSI: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
^††DoCS: Department of Community Services.