Table 3.
Associations Between Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms and Breastfeeding and Infant Care Practices, Life After Pregnancy Study (2016, United States)
| Women subthreshold OC symptoms (n = 200, 86%) |
Women with clinically elevated OC symptomsa
(n = 32, 14%) |
β (95% CI) | Adjusted β (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median (inter-quartile range) | ||||
| Postpartum OC symptoms related to infant care | 16 (12) | 24 (18) | 6.0 (2.7 to 9.3) | 3.6 (0.4 to 6.9) |
| BSES-SF | 55 (20) | 43 (26) | −7.2 (−13.8 to −0.6) | −3.5 (−10.0 to 2.9) |
| Overall breastfeeding experience (MBFES) | 119 (33) | 110 (37) | −5.3 (−15.1 to 4.6) | 0.4 (−9.3 to 10.1) |
| Breastfeeding problems | 5 (3) | 6 (3) | 0.6 (−0.3 to 1.6) | 0.3 (0.0 to 0.2) |
| No. of times pumped breast milkb | c | c | 0.6 (0.0 to 1.3) | 0.6 (−0.0 to 1.2) |
Missing data: Women subthreshold OCD symptoms: BSES (28), MBFES (26), breastfeeding problems (14). Women with clinically elevated OC symptoms: BSES (10), MBFES (10), breastfeeding problems (7).
Women with clinically elevated OC symptoms were those who received a score ≥21 on the OCI-R.
Number of times per day using a breast pump was a semi-continuous variable (Fig. 2).
Adjusted for depressive symptoms.
BSES-SF, Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale–Short Form; CI, confidence interval; MBFES, Maternal Breastfeeding Evaluation Scale; OC, obsessive-compulsive; OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; OCI-R, Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory–Revised.