Does Nursery-Based Intensified Anticipatory Guidance Reduce Emergency Department Use for Nonurgent Conditions in the First Month of Life? A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of all participants in each study group.

Characteristics	All	Control	Intervention	value
Mean age (SD)	26.5 (6.5)	26.6 (6.5)	26.4 (6.5)	0.77
Race/ethnicity (%)				0.16
Hispanic	67.7	64.5	72.0
African American	25.9	27.6	24.4
Others	5.6	7.9	5.6
Education (%)				0.09
Incomplete high school	43.8	37.9	49.1
Complete high school	22.2	25.5	19.3
College/postgraduate	34.0	34.5	31.6
Marital status (%)				0.55
Single	60.8	59.3	62.0
Married	30.7	30.7	30.7
Other	8.5	10.0	7.2
Number of children (%)				0.30
1	34.8	35.1	34.5
2	30.1	33.1	27.3
>3	35.1	31.7	38.2