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Table 1 Characteristics of responders and dropouts (in italics) at the first visit at the clinic (baseline) and at follow-up after the abortion

From: Posttraumatic stress among women after induced abortion: a Swedish multi-centre cohort study

Variable

Baseline responders

Responders at 3 month

 

All

Responders 3 month follow-up

Dropouts 3 month follow-up 1

 

Responders 6 month follow-up2

Dropouts 6 month follow-up 2

 

n = 1457

n = 742

n = 639

 

n = 6413

n = 107

 

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

P-value

n (%)

n (%)

P-value

Age

   

0.001

  

0.8

 15–19

135 (9.3)

57 (7.7)

70 (11.0)

 

49 (7.7)

9 (8.4)

 

 20–24

443 (30.4)

208 (28.1)

217 (34.0)

 

176 (27.5)

34 (31.8)

 

 25–34

564 (38.7)

293 (39.5)

237 (37.1)

 

254 (39.7)

41 (38.3)

 

 35–

314 (21.6)

183 (24.7)

115 (18.0)

 

161 (25.2)

23 (21.5)

 

Mean ± SD

28.0 ± 7.2

28.7 ± 7.4

27.1 ± 6.9

<0.001

28.8 ± 7.5

27.9 ± 7.1

0.3

Living alone

379 (27.0)

182 (25.2)

174 (28.6)

0.2

152 (24.4)

31 (29.8)

0.3

Education <12 years

1009 (69.8)

465 (63.2)

493 (77.9)

<0.001

392 (61.6)

78 (73.6)

0.018

Occupation

   

0.06

  

0.1

 Working full-time

572 (40.6)

297 (41.2)

240 (39.2)

 

250 (40.1)

48 (46.2)

 

 Working part-time

270 (19.2)

150 (20.8)

104 (17.0)

 

139 (22.3)

12 (11.5)

 

 Student

355 (25.2)

179 (24.8)

160 (26.1)

 

152 (24.4)

28 (26.9)

 

 Other occupation

211 (15.0)

95 (13.2)

109 (17.8)

 

82 (13.2)

16 (15.4)

 

Anxiety symptoms

622 (43.5)

283 (38.6)

302 (48.6)

<0.001

190 (30.3)

30 (28.3)

0.7

Depression symptoms

449 (31.4)

210 (28.6)

210 (33.8)

0.043

85 (13.6)

14 (13.2)

1.0

Antidepressant use

98 (7.2)

40 (5.6)

53 (9.2)

0.012

36 (5.8)

5 (4.9)

0.8

Alcohol use

1154 (79.7)

607 (82.1)

486 (76.8)

0.014

519 (81.2)

91 (85.8)

0.3

Tobacco use

573 (39.5)

249 (33.7)

297 (46.8)

<0.001

206 (32.3)

45 (42.5)

0.040

Foreign born

120 (8.3)

45 (6.1)

60 (9.5)

0.019

41 (6.4)

4 (3.8)

0.3

Having no children

743 (55.9)

384 (54.5)

314 (56.2)

0.6

333 (54.8)

53 (52.5)

0.7

Previous abortion

505 (39.3)

232 (34.0)

242 (44.9)

<0.001

186 (31.7)

47 (47.0)

0.003

Abortion method

   

0.7

  

0.2

 Medical

1103 (81.5)

594 (83.0)

467 (81.9)

 

520 (84.0)

79 (77.5)

 

 Surgical

251 (18.5)

122 (17.0)

103 (18.1)

 

99 (16.0)

23 (22.5)

 

Place for abortion

   

0.8

  

1.0

Home

716 (53.0)

396 (55.4)

309 (54.5)

 

344 (55.6)

56 (55.4)

 

Clinic

643 (47.0)

319 (44.6)

258 (45.5)

 

275 (44.4)

45 (44.6)

 

Counselling before abortion

515 (40.4)

308 (45.7)

204 (38.3)

0.01

272 (46.5)

38 (40.4)

0.3

Counselling after abortion

36 (2.8)

20 (3.0)

13 (2.5)

0.6

19 (3.3)

1 (1.1)

0.2

  1. Frequencies are given in relation to available information or responses. Missing information was prevalent in 0.07 (age) –13% (Counselling after the abortion) of variables.
  2. 1Analysed with chi-square test based on data from the baseline questionnaire.
  3. 2Analysed with chi-square test based on data from the three-month assessment.
  4. 3Including six responders who were non-responders at 3 month follow-up.