Table 5.

Associations between age at marriage, experience of any abuse, and childbirth and depressive symptoms among 1825 newly married girls (Objective 3 Association between childbirth and abuse within marriage and depressive symptoms).

	Odds Ratio (95% CI)
Estimate from regression models that did not include interaction term
Age at marriage, per year increment	1.0 (0.9–1.1)
Experienced any abuse in marriage vs not	1.6 (1.2–2.2)
Had childbirth vs did not	0.7 (0.5–1.0)
Estimate from regression models that included both any abuse and childbirth variables and an interaction term between the two
Experienced any abuse in marriage vs not:
among girls without childbirth	2.2 (1.4–3.3)
among girls with childbirth	1.1 (0.7–1.8)
Had childbirth vs did not:
among girls without experience of any abuse	1.1 (0.6–1.9)
among girls with experience of any abuse	0.5 (0.4–0.8)

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval. Models adjusted for state, caste, education level (wave 1), household income (wave 2), PHQ score at wave 1, models for experienced any abuse and childbirth additionally adjusted for age at marriage.