Table 4.

Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios for psychiatric disorders five years after childbirth by caesarean section on maternal request

Psychiatric disorder five years after childbirth	Caesarean section on maternal request
	OR	95% CI	aOR a	95% CI
Any psychiatric disorder	2.2	1.8–2.7	1.5	1.2–1.9
Mental and behavioural disorder due to psychoactive substance use	3.5	2.3–5.1	2.0	1.3–3.1
Disorders of adult personality and behaviour	2.8	1.6–4.9	1.4	0.8–2.5
Behavioural syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors	2.3	1.3–3.9	1.5	0.9–2.7
Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescense	2.8	1.0–7.7	1.5	0.5–4.3
Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders	2.3	1.8–3.0	1.6	1.2–2.1
Mood disorders	2.5	1.9–3.2	1.7	1.3–2.2
Mental retardation	2.4	0.3–18.0	0.2	0.2–3.3
Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders	4.4	1.0–18.3	2.9	0.7–12.7
Schizophrenia, schizotypal, and delusional disorders	0.5	0.1–3.7	0.3	0.0–1.8
Disorders of psychological development	5.3	1.3–22.4	2.5	0.5–11.5
Unspecified mental disorder	6.6	2.0–21.6	4.0	1.2–13.8

^aAdjusted for previous psychiatric disorder, age, marital status, BMI, parent’s country of birth, working status, tobacco use, educational attainment, urinary tract infection, inflammatory bowel disease, SLE, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, epilepsy, kidney disease and lung disease/asthma