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. 2019 Dec 11;19:494. doi: 10.1186/s12884-019-2633-8

Table 4.

Obstetric complications and risk of dissatisfaction with childbirth. Logistic regression analyses were used to estimate crude and adjusted odds ratios (ORs and aORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CI)

Total number of births
N = 16,775
Dissatisfaction with childbirth VAS 1–3
Number n (%) Crude OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI) a
Obstetric anal sphincter injury
 Yes 390 53 (13.6) 2.71 (2.01–3.64) 2.07 (1.51–2.83)
 No 16,384 900 (5.5) ref. ref.
 Missing n 1
Postpartum hemorrhage
  < 500 ml 11,876 543 (4.6) ref. ref.
 500–999 ml 3725 288 (7.7) 1.75 (1.51–2.03) 1.65 (1.42–1.92)
 1000–1999 ml 815 82 (10.1) 2.34 (1.83–2.98) 2.11 (1.65–2.72)
  ≥ 2000 ml 161 27 (16.8) 4.21 (2.76–6.42) 4.11 (2.68–6.30)
 Missing n 198
Apgar score at 5 min
  < 4 19 3 (15.8) 3.00 (0.88–10.28) 2.57 (0.74–8.89)
  < 7 179 28 (15.6) 3.16 (2.10–4.76) 2.95 (1.95–4.47)
  ≥ 7 16,559 918 (5.5) ref. ref.
 Missing n 37

OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval. aAdjusted for maternal age and parity