Understanding depression among pregnant Aboriginal women

Failure to consider the influence of social context on health can result in the overlooking of key pathways to target for meaningful and enduring primary prevention, and in the investment of funds into programs that are not effective due to being inappropriate to the needs of the target group. [...] The remainder of this report is accordingly divided between the two studies, and offers a summary of the specific research questions, methods, results and conclusions of each of these two components of the PhD dissertation. [...] The forward selection process involved the insertion of variables in blocks according to their positioning on Figure 1. The backward selection rule involved, for all stages but the final model, removal of variables for which the beta coefficient’s p-value was less than 0.2 (Lee & Koval, 1997); for the final model, the p-value was lowered to the conventional cut-off of 0.05. [...] The hypotheses of partial mediation were assessed by checking whether the following conditions were met: 1) The initial variable is associated with the outcome variable; 2) The initial variable is associated with the proposed mediator; and 3) The association between the initial variable and the outcome variable is attenuated with adjustment for the proposed mediator (Baron & Kenny, 1986). [...] Relative to White and non-Aboriginal racialized minority women, greater proportions of Aboriginal women were in the lowest category for income, in the lowest category for education, in the not-working category for employment, in the “other” category for marital status, and in the youngest category for age.