Table 2.
Comparison of characteristics of women with and without a previous psychiatric admission prior to the index admission (n=1720)
| Previous admission | No previous admission | OR adjusted by age and deprivation (95% CI) | |
| Number (% of total) | Number (% of total) | ||
| Total | 562 (32.5) | 1168 (67.5) | |
| Diagnosis | |||
| Non-affective psychosis | 56 (10.0) | 75 (6.4) | 1.55 (1.07 to 2.25) |
| Affective psychosis | 41 (7.3) | 30 (2.6) | 3.00 (1.82 to 4.94) |
| Postpartum psychosis | 57 (10.1) | 170 (14.6) | 0.36 (0.20 to 0.64) |
| Non-psychotic depressive episodes | 137 (24.4) | 395 (33.8) | 0.63 (0.50 to 0.79) |
| Any other diagnosis | 450 (80.1) | 973 (83.3) | 0.78 (0.60 to 1.02) |
| Deprivation quintile | |||
| Most deprived | 251 (45.7) | 470 (40.7) | 1.31 (1.07 to 1.61) |
| 2 | 131 (23.9) | 239 (20.7) | 1.11 (0.87 to 1.42) |
| 3 | 85 (15.5) | 189 (16.4) | 0.90 (0.68 to 1.20) |
| 4 | 54 (9.8) | 152 (13.2) | 0.68 (0.49 to 0.95) |
| Least deprived | 28 (5.1) | 104 (9.0) | 0.48 (0.31 to 0.75) |
| Age group | |||
| Under 20 | 37 (6.6) | 152 (13.0) | 0.44 (0.30 to 0.64) |
| 20–25 | 146 (26.0) | 359 (30.7) | 0.78 (0.62 to 0.98) |
| 26–30 | 160 (28.5) | 294 (25.2) | 1.19 (0.95 to 1.50) |
| 31–35 | 126 (22.4) | 217 (18.6) | 1.31 (1.01 to 1.68) |
| 36–40 | 80 (14.2) | 121 (10.4) | 1.45 (1.07 to 1.97) |
| Over40 | 13 (2.3) | 25 (2.1) | 1.01 (0.50 to 2.03) |
| Length of stay | |||
| 5 days or less | 203 (36.1) | 472 (40.4) | 0.87 (0.70 to 1.09) |
| 6–10 days | 112 (19.9) | 234 (20.0) | 0.99 (0.76 to 1.28) |
| 11–20 days | 104 (18.5) | 212 (18.2) | 0.95 (0.73 to 1.24) |
| 21–40 days | 71 (12.6) | 150 (12.8) | 0.99 (0.73 to 1.26) |
| 40 plus days | 72 (12.8) | 100 (8.6) | 1.50 (1.07 to 2.09) |
| Had previous pregnancy | 359 (63.9) | 671 (57.5) | 1.03 (0.82 to 1.29) |
| Time of first admission | |||
| Postpartum (0–12 weeks | 57 (10.1) | 170 (14.6) | 0.71 (0.48 to 1.02) |
Women could have more than one diagnosis so numbers are greater than the number of women. In total, 27 women had no Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile assigned due to missing or incorrect postcode and were excluded from the regression analysis for all variables.