Table 3 Characteristics of women who developed PTSD or PTSS after abortion compared with the comparison group
From: Posttraumatic stress among women after induced abortion: a Swedish multi-centre cohort study
Variable | Comparison group n = 499 | Developed PTSD/PTSS n = 51 | Recovered n = 145 | Unchanged n = 25 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n (%) | n (%) | P-value | n (%) | P-value | n (%) | P-value | |
Age | 0.001 | 0.7 | 0.1 | ||||
15–19 | 33 (6.6) | 7 (13.7) | 13 (9.0) | 4 (16.0) | |||
20–24 | 129 (25.9) | 24 (47.1) | 41 (28.3) | 4 (16.0) | |||
25–34 | 204 (40.9) | 15 (29.4) | 57 (39.3) | 14 (56.0) | |||
34– | 133 (26.7) | 5 (9.8) | 34 (23.4) | 3 (12.0) | |||
Living alone | 119 (24.3) | 17 (34.7) | 0.2 | 33 (23.6) | 0.9 | 6 (24.0) | 1.0 |
Education <12 years | 297 (59.8) | 37 (74.0) | 0.049 | 101 (69.7) | 0.031 | 19 (76.0) | 0.1 |
Occupation | 0.01 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||
Working full-time | 222 (45.5) | 10 (20.8) | 51 (35.9) | 6 (24.0) | |||
Working part-time | 96 (19.7) | 13 (27.1) | 32 (22.5) | 5 (20.0) | |||
Student | 106 (21.7) | 17 (35.4) | 41 (28.9) | 8 (32.0) | |||
Other occupation | 64 (13.1) | 8 (16.7) | 18 (12.7) | 6 (24.0) | |||
Alcohol use | 416 (83.4) | 37 (72.5) | 0.1 | 117 (80.7) | 0.5 | 18 (72.0) | 0.2 |
Tobacco use | 152 (30.5) | 18 (35.3) | 0.5 | 54 (37.2) | 0.2 | 16 (64.0) | <0.001 |
Foreign born | 27 (5.4) | 3 (5.9) | 0.9 | 13 (9.0) | 0.2 | 1 (4.0) | 0.8 |
Having no children | 257 (53.4) | 32 (72.7) | 0.014 | 75 (55.1) | 0.7 | 11 (45.8) | 0.5 |
Previous abortion | 147 (31.6) | 17 (38.6) | 0.4 | 49 (37.7) | 0.2 | 12 (48.0) | 0.1 |
Abortion method | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.0 | ||||
Medical | 404 (83.3) | 38 (80.9) | 116 (82.9) | 21 (84.0) | |||
Surgical | 81 (16.7) | 9 (19.1) | 24 (17.1) | 4 (16.0) | |||
Place for abortion | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | ||||
Home | 279 (57.6) | 23 (51.1) | 73 (51.8) | 13 (52.0) | |||
Clinic | 205 (42.4) | 22 (48.9) | 68 (48.2) | 12 (48.0) | |||
Counselling before abortion | 187 (41.6) | 27 (60.0) | 0.017 | 75 (55.1) | 0.005 | 11 (45.8) | 0.7 |
Counselling after abortion | 10 (2.2) | 3 (6.7) | 0.1 | 4 (3.0) | 0.7 | 1 (4.2) | 0.6 |