Risk of inadequate or excessive GWG by level
of psychosocial status
Table 3 presents the crude and adjusted risk ratios for dichotomized
adequacy of GWG by psychosocial predictors in the
categorical form. The first series of comparisons involved inadequate
vs. adequate GWG outcomes. As illustrated in Table 3,
the relationship between the level of psychosocial status variables
and inadequate relative to adequate weight gain during
pregnancy tended to be modest at best when examining both
crude and adjusted risk ratios. Women who reported moderate
(RR: 1.75; 95% CI: 1.3, 2.4) and high (RR: 1.57; 95% CI:
1.2, 2.1) relative to low belief that chance influenced the health
of her fetus tended to gain less weight than clinically advised.
However, the risk ratios were significantly attenuated when
adjusted for covariates (see Table 3). Finally, it would appear