A Qualitative Study to Examine Perceptions and Barriers to Appropriate Gestational Weight Gain among Participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children Program

Table 1

Description of the sample ().

		%	Mean	s.d.
Age	59		28.20	5.41
Years in WIC	59		2.39	3.16
Years in the US	24		14.27	7.69
Birthplace
US born	35	59.3
Foreign born	24	40.7
Children in WIC
Pregnant	30	50.8
One child	21	35.6
Two children	8	13.6
Ethnicity
White	13	22.0
Black	20	33.9
Hispanic-English-speaking	18	30.5
Hispanic-Spanish-speaking	8	13.6
Marital status
Married	19	32.2
Divorced	3	5.1
Separated	4	6.8
Never married	33	55.9
Education
Up to 12th grade	16	27.1
High school grad or GED	15	25.4
Some college/associate	21	35.6
Bachelors and beyond	7	11.9
Employment
Self-employed	17	28.8
Unemployed	24	40.7
Homemaker	9	15.2
Student	6	10.2
Unable to work	3	5.1
Maternal BMI
Underweight	4	6.8
Normal weight	24	40.7
Overweight	12	20.3
Obese	19	32.2