Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of the study participants – limited to study persons born between 1973 and 1977, indifferent on future child
From: Anxiety in women - a Swedish national three-generational cohort study
Anxiety | Anxiety | p-valuea | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Yes | |||
n (%) | n (%) | |||
First-generation mothers | ||||
Educational level | Elementary | 50,015 (22.1) | 2539 (25.2) | < 0.001 |
High school | 110,512 (48.9) | 4937 (49.1) | ||
Graduate/post-graduate | 65,699 (29.0) | 2589 (25.7 | ||
Civil status | Married | 190,869 (84.2) | 7830 (78.6) | < 0.001 |
Unmarriedb | 17,493 (7.7) | 990 (9.9) | ||
Divorced/widowed | 18,261 (8.1) | 1144 (11.5) | ||
Parity | No previous children | 102,328 (43.8) | 4444(43.2) | 0.275 |
Previous children | 131,540 (56.2) | 5841 (56.8) | ||
Age when giving birth | < 20 | 16,099 (6.9) | 1018 (9.9) | < 0.001 |
20–26 | 111,212 (47.6) | 4792 (46.6) | ||
27–33 | 88,450 (37.8) | 3626 (35.3) | ||
> 33 | 18,107 (7.7) | 849 (8.3) | ||
Origin | Nordic | 9905 (4.2) | 408 (4.0) | 0.185 |
Non-Nordic | 223,963 (95.8) | 9877 (96.0) | ||
Second-generation women | ||||
Educational level | Elementary | 9954 (4.4) | 1513 (15.0) | < 0.001 |
High school | 89,281 (39.2) | 4466 (44.2) | ||
Graduate/post-graduate | 128,453 (56.4) | 4129 (40.8) | ||
Civil status | Married | 123,020 (52.6) | 4596 (44.7) | < 0.001 |
Unmarrieda | 107,549 (46.0) | 5387 (52.4) | ||
Divorced/widowed | 3298 (1.4) | 302 (2.9) | ||
Parity | No previous children | 94,215 (54.9) | 3891 (56.8) | 0.003 |
Previous children | 77,348 (45.1) | 2964 (43.2) | ||
Age when giving birth | < 20 | 3220 (1.9) | 422 (6.2) | < 0.001 |
20–26 | 37,956 (22.1) | 2119 (30.9) | ||
27–33 | 95,051 (55.4) | 3093 (45.1) | ||
> 33 | 35,336 (20.6) | 1221 (17.8) | ||
Childbirth | No | 48,825 (20.9) | 2893 (28.1) | < 0.001 |
Yes | 185,043 (79.1) | 7392 (71.9) | ||
First-generation mother diagnosed with anxiety | Yes | 13,480 (5.8) | 8884 (86.4) | < 0.001 |
No | 220,388 (94.2) | 1401 (13.6) | ||
First-generation mother, no. of visits to hospital due to anxiety | 0–3 visits | 104,551 (44.7) | 3162 (30.7) | < 0.001 |
4- visits | 129,317 (55.3) | 7123 (69.3) | < 0.001 | |
Second-generation women, no. of visits to hospital due to anxiety | 0–3 visits | 133,878 (57.2) | 652 (6.3) | |
4- visits | 99,990 (42.8) | 9633 (93.7) | ||