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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chronobiol Int. 2022 Mar 16;39(7):984–990. doi: 10.1080/07420528.2022.2053703

Table 2.

Association of circadian preference with psychiatric symptoms during pregnancy

No psychiatric symptoms Psychiatric symptoms
N % N % Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI)a
Antepartum generalized anxiety
Circadian preference
 Morning 566 45.8 230 41.1 Reference Reference
 Intermediate 384 31.1 174 31.1 1.12 (0.88–1.41) 1.14 (0.90–1.45)
 Evening 286 23.1 156 27.9 1.34 (1.05–1.72) 1.44 (1.12–1.86)
p-value for trend 0.022 0.005
Antepartum PTSD
Circadian preference
 Morning 568 45.6 228 41.5 Reference Reference
 Intermediate 392 31.5 166 30.2 1.06 (1.83–1.34) 1.04 (0.82–1.32)
 Evening 286 23.0 156 28.4 1.36 (1.06–1.74) 1.38 (1.07–1.78)
p-value for trend 0.021 0.014
Antepartum depression
Circadian preference
 Morning 605 44.9 191 42.6 Reference Reference
 Intermediate 420 31.2 138 30.8 1.04 (0.81–1.34) 1.04 (0.81–1.35)
 Evening 323 24.0 119 26.6 1.17 (0.90–1.52) 1.23 (0.94–1.61)
p-value for trend 0.270 0.145

Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.

a

Adjusted for age (continuous), marital status (married vs. others), parity (nulliparous vs. others), difficulty paying for the very basics (hard vs. not very hard)