TABLE 3—
Unadjusted and Adjusted Odds of Obtaining an Abortion After Being Turned Away: United States, University of California, San Francisco Turnaway Study, 2008–2010
Odds of Having an Abortion After Being Turned Away |
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Unadjusted OR (95% CI) | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | |
Sociodemographic characteristics | ||
Age, y | 1.02 (0.95, 1.08) | 1.00 (0.91, 1.09) |
Race/ethnicity | ||
Non-Hispanic White (Ref) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
Non-Hispanic Black | 0.43 (0.16, 1.15) | 0.42 (0.14, 1.31) |
Hispanic/Latina | 0.18** (0.05, 0.62) | 0.12** (0.03, 0.56) |
Multiracial/other | 0.36 (0.11, 1.21) | 0.40 (0.10, 1.59) |
Highest grade completed | ||
< high school | 0.84 (0.27, 2.64) | 0.98 (0.26, 3.68) |
High school diploma or GED (Ref) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
Some college, vocational training | 1.52 (0.60, 3.83) | 0.72 (0.22, 2.32) |
College degree | 4.65 (0.87, 24.91) | 3.09 (0.49, 19.66) |
Maternal education | ||
< high school | 0.23* (0.06, 0.92) | 0.28 (0.06, 1.31) |
High school (Ref) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
Some/grad tech, or college | 0.63 (0.22, 1.87) | 0.60 (0.18, 2.03) |
≥ college grad | 0.89 (0.31, 2.53) | 0.66 (0.21, 2.14) |
Missing | 0.60 (0.13, 2.83) | 0.56 (0.08, 3.85) |
Insurance status | ||
None | 1.06 (0.40, 2.83) | 1.56 (0.48, 5.08) |
Medicaid | 0.61 (0.23, 1.63) | 0.48 (0.14, 1.58) |
Private/other (Ref) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
Reproductive history | ||
How difficult to make the decision | ||
Very or somewhat difficult | 0.28** (0.13, 0.64) | 0.19*** (0.07, 0.49) |
Very or somewhat easy, not easy or difficult (Ref) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
Facility gestational age limit | 0.74*** (0.68, 0.80) | 0.68*** (0.61, 0.77) |
Deviation from site gestational age | 1.21 (0.85, 1.72) | 0.99 (0.68, 1.43) |
Previous children | ||
0 (Ref) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
≥ 1 | 0.85 (0.39, 1.85) | 1.83 (0.65, 5.13) |
Previous abortions (before index abortion) | ||
0 (Ref) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
≥ 1 | 1.49 (0.67, 3.29) | 1.57 (0.60, 4.11) |
Note. CI = confidence interval; GED = general equivalency diploma; OR = odds ratio. The sample size was n = 226.
*P < .05; **P < .01; ***P < .001.