Integrated mental health care in a multidisciplinary maternal and child health service in the community: the findings from the Suzaka trial

Table 2 The comparisons of the service usage between the control and the intervention group

		Intervention group			Control group
		Mean or Number	SD or %	p value	Mean or Number	SD or %
Primary outcome
Total score of the EPDS		2.74	2.89	< 0.001**	4.58	2.62
Secondary outcomes
PHN’s interview				< 0.001**
	Yes	201	96.2		0	0.0
	No	9	4.3		138	100.0
PHN’s counselling				0.02*
	Yes	11	5.3		1	0.7
	No	199	95.2		137	99.3
maternal seminar				0.01*
	Yes	46	22.0		16	13.1
	No	164	78.5		122	16.9
postnatal care usage				0.42
	Yes	11	5.3		4	3.0
	No	199	95.2		134	97.0
home visit				< 0.001**
	Yes	197	94.3		114	82.6
	No	13	6.2		23	16.7
telephone counselling for child care				0.34
	Yes	8	3.8		3	2.2
	No	202	96.7		135	97.8
Counselling for child care at PHC				0.22
	Yes	41	19.6		20	16.9
	No	169	80.9		118	83.1
Family support usage				0.34
	Yes	1	0.5		2	1.5
	No	209	100.0		136	98.5

SD: standard deviation. EPDS indicates Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, PHN: public health nurse. PHC indicates public health center, p value: the value of the Chi-square test for each variable between the two groups, *: statistically significant (p < 0.05) in the analyses, **: statistically significant (p < 0.001) in the analyses

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