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[Prenatal care and occupational activity]
We studied the gestational age at the first prenatal visit and the number of prenatal visits by occupational activity among 1,573 women who delivered in 32 maternity units of the Belgium's French speaking region. The comparison with non working women showed that working women consulted significantly (p less than 0.01) earlier, whatever their professional activity, their parity and their social class. They consulted significantly (p less than 0.05) more frequently in terms of reaching the expected number of consultations calculated as a function of gestational age at the first visit. This difference disappeared when parity and social class were taken into account.
We studied the gestational age at the first prenatal visit and the number of prenatal visits by occupational activity among 1,573 women who delivered in 32 maternity units of the Belgium's French speaking region. The comparison with non working women showed that working women consulted significantly (p less than 0.01) earlier, whatever their professional activity, their parity and their social class. They consulted significantly (p less than 0.05) more frequently in terms of reaching the expected number of consultations calculated as a function of gestational age at the first visit. This difference disappeared when parity and social class were taken into account.