Perceived stress and emotional social support among women who are denied or receive abortions in the United States: a prospective cohort study

Table 2 Multivariate mixed effects model of perceived stress by study group over time

	Coefficient	95% conf. interval
Study group
Near Limit Abortion Group	ref	ref	ref
First Trimester Abortion Group	-0.57*	-1.13	-0.01
Parenting Turnaway Group	1.02**	0.34	1.69
Time
Months	-0.08	-0.16	0.00
Months²	0.002	-0.005	0.008
Months³	0.000	0.000	0.000
Study group by time interactions
First trimester x months	0.10	-0.03	0.23
First trimester x months²	-0.004	-0.014	0.006
First trimester x months³	0.000	0.000	0.000
Parenting turnaway x months	-0.31***	-0.46	-0.15
Parenting turnaway x months²	0.02***	0.01	0.04
Parenting turnaway x months³	-0.001***	-0.001	0.000
Covariates
Age	0.126	-0.01	0.06
Race/ethnicity
White	ref	ref	ref
Black	0.114	-0.08	0.80
Hispanic/Latina	0.660	-0.38	0.61
Other	0.666	-0.68	0.44
Household composition
No other adult	ref	ref	ref
Male partner	0.041	-0.93	-0.02
Adult relative	0.197	-0.77	0.16
Non-adult relative	0.099	-1.16	0.10
Parity
Nulliparous	ref	ref	ref
Baby under 1	0.036	0.04	1.23
1+ previous births, no new baby	0.353	-0.24	0.68
2+ previous births, no new baby	0.900	-0.52	0.45
Mother's highest level of education
<high school	ref	ref	ref
High school or GED	0.443	-0.72	0.31
Associate’s, some college, tech school	0.905	-0.62	0.55
College	0.098	-1.03	0.09
Missing	0.942	-0.68	0.73
School/working status
Not in school or employed	ref	ref	ref
In school	0.019	-1.18	-0.11
Employed	<0.001	-1.14	-0.32
In school and employed	0.020	-1.17	-0.10
History of depression	<0.001	1.29	2.15
Experienced violence in past year	0.001	0.30	1.13
History of child abuse/neglect	0.001	0.25	1.04
Model constant	4.74***	4.09	5.39

*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001. ref = reference group, SD = standard deviation.

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