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Table 3 Associations between changes in planned place of birth and pregnancy anxiety and general anxious/depressed mood

From: Pregnancy related anxiety and general anxious or depressed mood and the choice for birth setting: a secondary data-analysis of the DELIVER study

Nulliparous women

 

Nulliparous (n = 633)a

 

Home – home

(n = 279/38.4%)

Home – hospitalb

(n = 18/2.5%)

Hospital-hospital

(n = 300/41.3%)

Hospital – homec

(n = 36/5%)

PRAQ total > cut off or anxious/depressed 20wks

 No (%)

21 (7.5)

1 (5.6)

47 (15.7)

6 (16.7)

 aOR (95% CI)

Reference

0.67 (0.08–5.32)

Reference

1.09 (0.43–2.79)

Anxious/depressed at 20 wks. (EQ6D)

 No (%)

30 (10.8)

3 (16.7)

49 (16.3)

7 (19.4)

 aOR (95% CI)

Reference

1.61 (0.44–5.97)

Reference

1.17 (0.48–2.85)

Change not anxious/depressed at 20 wks. to anxious/depressed at 37 wks. (EQ6D)

 No (%)

24 (8.7)

5 (27.8)

29 (9.7)

4 (11.1)

 aOR (95% CI)

Reference

4.17 (1.35–12.89)d

Reference

1.04 (0.34–3.21)

  1. ORs adjusted only for two dummy-categories SES due to the smaller N and the rule of thumb of a minimum of ten events in the outcome variable per covariate
  2. aExcluded: n = 94 clients undecided regarding planned place of birth at 20 wks
  3. bIncluded: n = 5 clients who changed from home to undecided
  4. cIncluded: n = 5 clients who changed from hospital to undecided
  5. d = <.05