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. 2022 Nov 13;14(11):e31433. doi: 10.7759/cureus.31433

Table 3. Associations between legal access to abortion (dichotomous) and the prevalence of common mental disorders in women aged 10-24 years and 15-49 years.

*P-value significant at <0.05.

**P-value significant at <0.01.

"t" denotes independent samples t-test statistic and "p" denotes statistical significance level (p-value).

Year Depression (%), women 10-24 years Anxiety disorders (%), women 10-24 years Depression (%), women 25-49 years Anxiety disorders (%), women 25-49 years
2009 t=0.16, p=0.872 t= -0.41, p=0.661 t=2.39, p=0.018* t=0.95, p=0.341
2017 t=0.50, p=0.618 t= -0.67, p=0.501 t=2.87, p=0.005** t=0.60, p=0.547