Disparities in who is asked about their perinatal mental health: an analysis of cross-sectional data from consecutive national maternity surveys

Harrison, Sian; Pilkington, Victoria; Li, Yangmei; Quigley, Maria A.; Alderdice, Fiona

doi:10.1186/s12884-023-05518-4

Table 4 Association between women’s sociodemographic characteristics and being asked about mental health during the postnatal check appointment across surveys

From: Disparities in who is asked about their perinatal mental health: an analysis of cross-sectional data from consecutive national maternity surveys

	2014 survey N = 4571						2018 survey N = 4509						2020 survey N = 4611
	n	%	OR	95%CI	aOR ^a	95% CI	n	%	OR	95%CI	aOR ^a	95% CI	n	%	OR	95%CI	aOR ^a	95% CI
*Total n % (95%CI)*	*4035*	*88.2*					*3652*	*78.3*	*(76.8, 79.8)*				*3438*	*73.7*	*(72.2, 75.2)*
Age of Mother
16–19	79	79.1	0.42	0.24, 0.73	0.35	0.19, 0.65	46	80.0	0.92	0.46, 1.82	0.98	0.44, 2.14	37	87.4	2.16	0.92, 5.08	2.14	0.89, 5.15
20–24	457	86.1	0.68	0.49, 0.95	0.73	0.50, 1.06	251	69.8	0.53	0.40, 0.71	0.60	0.43, 0.83	245	69.5	0.71	0.54, 0.94	0.77	0.57, 1.04
25–29	1082	88.3	0.84	0.64, 1.10	0.82	0.61, 1.09	837	76.0	0.73	0.58, 0.92	0.78	0.61, 0.99	790	68.7	0.69	0.57, 0.83	0.71	0.58, 0.87
30–34	1426	90.0	1		1		1426	81.3	1		1		1347	76.2	1		1
35–39	780	89.4	0.94	0.69, 1.27	0.90	0.66, 1.24	862	81.0	0.98	0.78, 1.23	1.01	0.79, 1.29	839	75.2	0.95	0.78, 1.16	0.94	0.77, 1.16
40 +	212	87.4	0.77	0.48, 1.22	0.72	0.45, 1.15	230	84.4	1.24	0.83, 1.86	1.34	0.87, 2.07	180	80.9	1.33	0.89, 1.98	1.35	0.88, 2.07
Ethnicity
White	3394	91.2	1		1		3121	81.2	1		1		2945	74.8	1		1
Mixed	74	83.9	0.50	0.26, 0.97	0.50	0.26, 0.98	80	70.8	0.56	0.32, 0.99	0.56	0.33, 0.96	73	65.9	0.65	0.40, 1.06	0.63	0.38, 1.03
Asian	348	75.3	0.29	0.22, 0.39	0.28	0.21, 0.38	226	69.2	0.52	0.38, 0.71	0.55	0.39, 0.76	256	66.6	0.67	0.52, 0.87	0.67	0.51, 0.87
Black	124	80.7	0.40	0.26, 0.62	0.43	0.26, 0.71	72	67.4	0.48	0.29, 0.81	0.55	0.32, 0.95	99	75.7	1.05	0.63, 1.75	0.98	0.59, 1.64
Other	16	69.6	0.22	0.09, 0.55	0.20	0.08, 0.50	53	74.0	0.66	0.33, 1.32	0.52	0.26, 1.04	17	64.1	0.60	0.25, 1.47	0.63	0.26, 1.54
IMD
1 (least advantaged)	726	82.3	0.39	0.29, 0.54	0.69	0.48, 0.98	524	71.4	0.47	0.36, 0.62	0.65	0.49, 0.88	493	71.0	0.81	0.63, 1.02	0.92	0.72, 1.18
2	858	88.0	0.62	0.44, 0.86	0.99	0.69, 1.41	694	77.5	0.65	0.50, 0.85	0.88	0.66, 1.17	653	74.0	0.94	0.75, 1.18	1.05	0.83, 1.33
3	843	91.2	0.88	0.62, 1.25	1.07	0.74, 1.54	773	82.0	0.87	0.67, 1.13	1.00	0.76, 1.31	719	74.1	0.94	0.75, 1.17	0.99	0.79, 1.25
4	785	91.4	0.90	0.63, 1.29	1.01	0.69, 1.47	829	81.3	0.83	0.64, 1.07	0.87	0.66, 1.13	816	75.6	1.02	0.82, 1.27	1.01	0.81, 1.26
5 (most advantaged)	823	92.2	1		1		832	84.1	1		1		757	75.2	1		1
Education
< 17	661	86.4	0.69	0.52, 0.91	0.66	0.49, 0.90	375	74.4	0.70	0.53, 0.91	0.80	0.59, 1.09	353	69.4	0.72	0.57, 0.92	0.73	0.57, 0.94
17–18	1056	86.4	0.68	0.54, 0.87	0.62	0.47, 0.81	820	76.3	0.77	0.63, 0.96	0.84	0.66, 1.06	889	71.4	0.80	0.67, 0.95	0.82	0.68, 0.99
19 +	2282	90.3	1		1		2426	80.6	1		1		2165	75.8	1		1
Lives with partner
No	456	83.7	0.62	0.47, 0.81	0.77	0.56, 1.05	324	69.9	0.57	0.45, 0.74	0.80	0.59, 1.07	330	72.2	0.91	0.71, 1.16	0.95	0.73, 1.24
Yes	3582	83.7	1		1		3328	80.2	1		1		3108	74.0	1		1
Parity
Primiparous	1999	89.5	1.27	1.03, 1.58	1.24	0.98, 1.56	1926	81.1	1.34	1.12, 1.60	1.27	1.04, 1.54	1754	74.2	1.05	0.90, 1.23	1.04	0.86, 1.23
Multiparous	1952	87.0	1		1		1663	76.2	1		1		1604	73.2	1		1

2014 survey data weighted by age, country of birth, registration status and IMD quintile
2018 survey data weighted by age, country of birth, registration status, IMD quintile, region of residence and parity
2020 survey data weighted by age, country of birth, registration status, IMD quintile, region of residence and parity
^aVariables mutually adjusted in the multivariable analysis

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