Table 2.
Percentage of women with each complication at each time point, by near miss status
| 3 month interview | 6 month interview | 12 month interview | 3 year interview | 4 year interview | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No complication | Near-miss - other | Near-miss - caesarean | No complication | Near-miss - other | Near-miss - caesarean | No complication | Near-miss - other | Near-miss - caesarean | No complication | Near-miss - other | Near-miss - caesarean | No complication | Near-miss - other | Near-miss - caesarean | |
| PHYSICAL HEALTH | |||||||||||||||
| Proportion overweight (BMI >24 kg/m2)a | . | . | . | 22.6 | 16.5 | 19.5 | 21.9 | 21.3 | 23.9 | 32.1 | 22.5 | 35.4 | 41.9 | 33.7 | 43.4 |
| Hypertension (>140/90 mmHg)a | . | . | . | 2.1 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 5.9 | 7.6 | 3.6 | 7.1 | 8.9 |
| Severe anaemia (hemocue haemoglobin <7 g/dl)a | . | . | . | 0.5 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 1.5 | . | . | . |
| Difficulties doing 1 or more routine task | 10.6 | 16.3 | 16.7 | 9.8 | 15.9 | 12.5 | 7.5 | 10.9 | 4.8 | 18.5 | 19.0 | 20.0 | 15.8 | 23.4 | 18.3 |
| Urinary incontinence | . | . | . | 13.8 | 14.7 | 14.5 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 1.3 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Prolapse | . | . | . | . | . | . | 26.2 | 20.3 | 24.3 | - | - | - | . | . | . |
| MENTAL HEALTH | |||||||||||||||
| Depression – % at or above the K10 14 cut-off score | 9.6 | 14.9 | 18.5 | 6.6 | 11.6 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 10.9 | 6.1 | 6.4 | 5.1 | 8.7 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 11.7 |
| Have you recently thought about taking your life | 5.5 | 10.9 | 8.6 | 3.4 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 5.6 | 11.6 | 12.0 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 7.1 | . | . | . |
| Feeling average/not good/not good at all today | 10.8 | 15.4 | 12.9 | 11.6 | 17.4 | 19.3 | 9.6 | 14.5 | 9.6 | 15.4 | 23.9 | 8.6 | 14.5 | 19.6 | 20.0 |
| RELATIONS WITH HUSBAND/PARTNER | |||||||||||||||
| Relationship has gotten worse | 12.2 | 17.5 | 12.4 | 12.3 | 21.8 | 12.5 | 12.1 | 11.4 | 17.1 | 15.2 | 14.4 | 14.3 | 13.2 | 12.6 | 12.5 |
| Partner humiliated you in front others | 5.7 | 7.6 | 6.7 | 10.0 | 13.7 | 12.5 | 8.3 | 10.6 | 9.2 | 12.6 | 8.7 | 14.5 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.3 |
| Partner forced you to have sexual relations when you did not want to | 2.7 | 2.1 | 0 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 0 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 0 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 6.3 |
| Divorce | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 9.2 | 12.5 | 15.7 |
| ECONOMIC | |||||||||||||||
| Still have not paid off hospital costs from delivery | 1.5 | 4.7 | 8.0 | 1.3 | 3.7 | 10.5 | 3.7 | 10.7 | 15.1 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 8.6 | . | . | . |
| FERTILITY | |||||||||||||||
| Reported contraceptive useb | 55.6 | 46 | 83.3 | 58.3 | 49.3 | 64 | 51.5 | 42.3 | 65.5 | 39.5 | 34.4 | 37.7 | 57.5 | 41.3 | 60.4 |
| Resumed sexual intercourse | 28.3 | 35.5 | 25.8 | 58.3 | 58.3 | 56.8 | 73.8 | 69.4 | 72.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Subsequent birth | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 43.6 | 51.4 | 30.4 | 52.7 | 58.8 | 40.0 |
| Subsequent live birth | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 43.6 | 51.4 | 29.0 | 52.1 | 57.8 | 38.3 |
aWomen who report being currently pregnant at each time point are not included in calculations of anaemia, hypertension and being overweight
bDenominator is number of women who were sexually active at months 3,6 and 12 and all women at year 3 and year 4 and were not pregnant