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. 2014 Sep;104(9):1687–1694. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301378

TABLE 3—

Unadjusted and Adjusted Odds of Obtaining an Abortion After Being Turned Away: United States, University of California, San Francisco Turnaway Study, 20082010

Odds of Having an Abortion After Being Turned Away
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.