Neighborhood Social Environment and Health Communication at Prepregnancy and Maternal Stages among Caucasian and Asian Women: Findings from the Los Angeles Mommy and Baby Survey

Table 1

Logistic regressions of neighborhood factors in predicting communication during prepregnancy and prenatal visit to health care providers.

	Not talking to a health care provider to get prepared for pregnancy (prepregnancy visits)		Not talking about sensitive issues (prepregnancy visits)		Not talking about stigmatized issues (prenatal visits)
	Asian	Caucasian	Asian	Caucasian	Asian	Caucasian
Instrumental and emotional support	No data was collected				−0.023	−0.017
Neighbor social cohesion		−0.007	0.010	0.049	0.056	0.022
Neighbor social exchange	−0.09	−0.027	−0.08	−0.04	−0.042	−0.012
Neighbor services	−0.010	−0.001	0.006	0.010		−0.012

Notes:
(1) if < 0.05, if < 0.01, if < 0.001;
(2) controlled for the following covariates: age, education, income, and geographic units (operationalized as seven dummy variables accounting for the eight service planning areas in Los Angeles County).