Table 4.
Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios for caesarean section on maternal request by psychiatric disorders
| Psychiatric disorder | Caesarean section on maternal request |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 95% CI | aOR* | 95% CI | |
| Any psychiatric disorder | 3.1 | 2.5–3.8 | 2.5 | 2.0–3.2 |
| Disorders of adult personality and behaviour | 4.2 | 2.3–7.6 | 2.3 | 1.1–4.5 |
| Behavioural syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors | 2.9 | 1.7–5.0 | 2.6 | 1.4–4.8 |
| Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence | 11.2 | 4.7–26.8 | 12.9 | 5.1–32.4 |
| Neurotic disorders, stress-related disorders, and somatoform disorders | 4.0 | 3.0–5.2 | 3.1 | 2.3–4.2 |
| Mood disorders | 3.2 | 2.2–4.5 | 2.4 | 1.7–3.6 |
| Mental retardation | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders | 9.5 | 2.8–32.1 | 6.0 | 1.3–27.1 |
| Schizophrenia, schizotypal, and delusional disorders | 4.0 | 1.2–12.7 | 1.9 | 0.4–8.0 |
| Unspecific mental disorder | 8.1 | 2.9–23.2 | 3.9 | 1.1–13.4 |
| Disorders of psychological development | 4.0 | 0.5–29.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Mental and behaviour disorder caused by use of psychoactive substances | 2.4 | 1.5–3.7 | 1.8 | 1.1–2.9 |
*
Adjusted for background variables: age, marital status, BMI, parents’ country of birth, working status, tobacco use, educational level, urinary tract infection, inflammatory bowel disease, and lung disease.