Online Medicine for Pregnant Women

Table 6

Characteristics related to conduct Internet searches on pregnancy.

Variable	Often	Sometimes	Never	𝑃
Age in years
Mean ± SD	27.99 ± 3.91	27.58 ± 4.38	21.13 ± 2.59	<0.001
Range	19–35	19–37	18–24
Family status [N (%)]
Single	4 (6)	1 (2.2)	0	0.517
Married	63 (94)	44 (97.8)	8 (100)
Place of residence [N (%)]
Beer-Sheva	50 (74.6)	21 (46.7)	0	<0.001
Nearby city	9 (13.4)	9 (20.0)	2 (25.0)
Agricultural settlement	6 (9.0)	5 (11.1)	0
Bedouin sector	2 (3.0)	10 (22.2)	6 (75.0)
Country of birth [N (%)]
Israel	52 (77.6)	38 (84.4)	8 (100)	0.251
Other	15 (22.4)	7 (15.6)	0
Years of education
Mean ± SD	12.8 ± 0.55	11.76 ± 0.609	11.13 ± 1.126	0.001
Range	9–14	10–12	9–12
Present work status [N (%)]
Employed	54 (80.6)	28 (62.2)	0	<0.001
Student	9 (13.4)	5 (11.1)	2 (25.0)
Unemployed	4 (6.0)	2 (25.0)	6 (75.0)
Income
Low	25 (37.3)	30 (66.67)	8 (100)	0.002
Average	31 (46.3)	12 (26.7)	0
High	11 (16.4)	3 (6.7)	0
How would you rate your health condition? [N (%)]
Excellent	47 (70.1)	27 (60.0)	7 (87.5)	0.778
Very good	13 (19.4)	11 (24.4)	1 (12.5)
Good	1 (1.5)	3 (6.7)	0
Reasonable	5 (7.5)	3 (6.7)	0
Poor	1 (1.5)	1 (2.2)	0
Do you suffer from a chronic disease? [N (%)]
Yes	7 (10.4)	5 (11.1)	0	0.617
No	60 (89.6)	40 (88.9)	8 (100)
Population sector? [N (%)]
Jewish	64 (95.5)	29 (64.4)	0	<0.001
Bedouin	3 (4.5)	16 (35.6)	8 (100)
Are you religious? [N (%)]
Yes	17 (25.4)	22 (48.9)	8 (100)	<0.001
No	50 (74.6)	23 (51.1)	0
Number of children
Mean ± SD	0.81 ± 0.925	1.53 ± 1.673	0.88 ± 1.126	0.013
Range	0–4	0–7	0–3
Week of pregnancy
Mean ± SD	20.55 ± 7.83	21.89 ± 8.359	17.75 ± 8.013	0.366
Range	7–37	7–36	11–35