Increasing prevalence and incidence of domestic violence during the pregnancy and one and a half year postpartum, as well as risk factors: -a longitudinal cohort study in Southern Sweden

Table 3 Prevalence of DV during pregnancy and 1–1.5 year postpartum^a (N = 1939)

Characteristics	Prevalence of DV early pregnancy	Prevalence of DV late pregnancy^b	Prevalence of DV during pregnancy^c	Prevalence of DV 1.5 years pp
Characteristics	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
In the analysis	1928 (99.4)	1467 (75.7)	1573 (81.1)	697 (35.9)
Missing ^d	11 (0.6)	472 (24.3)	336 (18.9)	35 (4.8 )
Emotional abuse	15 (0.8)	24 (1.6)	36 (2.3)	18 (2.6)
Physical abuse	7 (0.4)	11 (0.7)	13 (0.8)	8 (1.2)
Sexual abuse	2 (0.1)	2 (0.1)	2 (0.1)	2 (0.3)
Total of any type of abuse	18 (1.0)	29 (2.0)	40 (2.5)	23 (3.3)

^aSome women may report more than one type of violence
^bSelf-reported at least once in Q-I, Q-II or both questionnaires
^cSelf-reported at least once in Q-I, Q-II, Q-III or in all questionnaires
^dExcluded in the analysis, because the questions about violence or the whole questionnaire were not answered

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