Table 3.

Odds ratios (and 95% CI) of the relationship between each measure of psychological distress and post-abortion contraceptive effectiveness level

Individual psychological distress measures	Unadjusted OR	Adjusted OR
Depressive symptoms (n = 247)
Continuous measure (range: 1-57)	1.021* (1.001-1.043)	1.020‡ (0.998-1.042)
Dichotomous (score ≥ 35.4)	2.21* (1.14-4.28)	2.40* (1.20-4.82)
Anxiety symptoms (n = 253)
Continuous measure (range: 0-40)	1.029‡ (0.999-1.060)	1.030‡ (0.999-1.063)
Dichotomous (score ≥ 15)	1.58 (0.82-3.05)	1.62 (0.82-3.21)
Stress symptoms (n = 253)
Continuous measure (range: 0-42)	1.028* (1.004-1.051)	1.025* (1.001-1.050)
Dichotomous (score ≥ 26)	1.75‡ (0.90-3.39)	1.59 (0.80-3.15)
Negative affect (n = 248)
Continuous measure (range: 0-30)	1.051** (1.013-1.090)	1.054** (1.014-1.096)
Dichotomous (score ≥ 16.8)	2.11* (1.12-3.99)	2.31* (1.182-4.52)
Global psychological distress (n = 253)
Continuous measure (range:	1.46** (1.10-1.94)	1.46** (1.09-1.95)
Dichotomous (score ≥ .87)	2.16* (1.11-4.19)	2.15* (1.08-4.33)

Notes. Models are ordinal logistic regression ones where the outcome is three levels: 0 = low effective methods, 1 = moderately effective methods, and 2 = highly effective methods. Adjusted model includes: age, self-identified race/ethnicity, marital status, education level, number of previous abortions, number of children, trimester of abortion, and importance of preventing pregnancy in next year.

^‡p < .10

^*p < .05

^**p ≤ .01