Table 1 Psychological distress by pain severity in pregnant, breastfeeding and non-pregnant/non-breastfeeding women
Pain Severity | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Psychological distress level | No recent pain | Very Mild to Mild | Moderate to Very Severe | P value | |||
Pregnant (n = 165, N = 191,856) | (n = 52, N = 57,064) | (n = 86, N = 100,943) | (n = 27, N = 33,848) | ||||
Low | 82.9 | (69.1–96.7) | 78.8 | (68.0–89.7) | 71.4 | (48.9–93.8) | |
Moderate | 15.1 | (2.1–28.1) | 14.5 | (5.9–23.1) | 21.3 | (3.9–38.7) | 0.550a |
High to very high | 2.0 | (0.0–5.0) | 6.7 | (0.0–13.6) | 7.3 | (0.0–18.0) | |
BF (n = 210, N = 234,601) | (n = 72, N = 78,889) | (n = 87, N = 95,019) | (n = 51, N = 60,694) | ||||
Low | 75.4 | (61.8–89.0) | 83.5 | (74.6–92.4) | 65.3 | (48.3–82.4) | |
Moderate | 21.5 | (8.8–34.1) | 13.0 | (5.7–20.3) | 26.5 | (9.5–43.6) | 0.102a |
High to very high | 3.1 | (0.0–8.8) | 3.4 | (0.0–7.4) | 8.1 | (0.0–17.2) | |
Non-pregnant/non-BF (n = 4005*, N = 4,607,140) | (n = 1257, N = 1,481,078) | (n = 1725, N = 2,013,751) | (n = 1016, N = 1,100,795) | ||||
Low | 77.3 | (74.2–80.4) | 63.4 | (60.1–66.6) | 46.9 | (42.5–51.4) | |
Moderate | 16.5 | (14.1–18.9) | 23.8 | (21.1–26.4) | 26.7 | (23.1–30.2) | < 0.001b |
High to very high | 6.3 | (4.6–7.9) | 12.8 | (10.9–14.8) | 26.4 | (23.2–29.6) | |