Table 3 Socio-demographic characteristics of the study participants, limited to women born between 1973 and 1977 who had become mothers
From: Anxiety in women - a Swedish national three-generational cohort study
Anxiety | Anxiety | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Yes | |||
n (%) | n (%) | |||
First-generation mothers | ||||
Educational level | Elementary | 87,638 (22.6) | 4197 (26.7) | < 0.001 |
High school | 191,237 (49.3) | 7869 (50.0) | ||
Graduate/post-graduate | 108,767 (28.1) | 3661 (23.3) | ||
Civil status | Married | 322,053 (84.8) | 12,314 (79.0) | < 0.001 |
Unmarrieda | 27,341 (7.2) | 1458 (9.4) | ||
Divorced/widowed | 30,443 (8.0) | 1811 (11.6) | ||
Parity | No previous children | 107,573 (43.5) | 7009 (43.6) | 0.720 |
Previous children | 221,502 (56.5) | 9049 (56.4) | ||
Age when giving birth | < 20 | 30,254 (7.7) | 2020 (12.6) | < 0.001 |
20–26 | 191,791 (48.9) | 7857 (48.9) | ||
27–33 | 142,058 (36.2) | 5013 (31.2) | ||
> 33 | 27,972 (7.1) | 1168 (7.3) | ||
Origin | Nordic | 379,255 (96.7) | 15,459 (96.3) | 0.001 |
Non-Nordic | 12,820 (3.3) | 599 (3.7) | ||
Second-generation mothers | ||||
Educational level | Elementary | 17,193 (4.4) | 2452 (15.3) | < 0.001 |
High school | 156,213 (39.9) | 7297 (45.5) | ||
Graduate/post-graduate | 218,399 (55.7) | 6297 (39.2) | ||
Civil status | Married | 254,795 (65.0) | 9559 (59.5) | < 0.001 |
Unmarrieda | 129,781 (33.1) | 5766 (35.9) | ||
Divorced/widowed | 7498 (1.9) | 733 (4.6) | ||
Parity | No previous children | 174,958 (47.7) | 6979 (46.4) | 0.002 |
Previous children | 191,962 (52.3) | 8054(53.6) | ||
Age when giving birth | < 20 | 8067 (2.2) | 1003 (6.7) | < 0.001 |
20–26 | 86,576 (23.6) | 4862 (32.3) | ||
27–33 | 203,016 (55.3) | 6706 (44.6) | ||
> 33 | 69,261 (18.9) | 2461 (16.4) | ||
Second-generation mother diagnosed with anxiety | Yes | 23,073 (5.9) | 2172 (13.5) | < 0.001 |
No | 369,002 (94.1) | 13,886 (86.5) | ||
First-generation mother, no. of visits to hospital due to anxiety | 0–3 visits | 169,608 (43.3) | 4721 (29.4) | < 0.001 |
4- visits | 222,467 (56.7) | 11,337 (70.6) | ||
Second-generation mother, no. of visits to hospital due to anxiety | 0–3 visits | 171,508 (43.7) | 346 (2.2) | < 0.001 |
4- visits | 220,567 (56.3) | 15,712 (97.8) | ||
Children (3rd generation) | ||||
Gender | Boy | 188,199 (51.3) | 7753 (51.6) | 0.498 |
Outpatient visits | Girl | 178,721 (48.7) | 7280 (48.2) | |
0–10 | 305,181 (83.2) | 10,934 (72.7) | < 0.001 | |
≥11 | 61,739 (16.8) | 4099 (27.3) | ||
Inpatient visits | 0–1 | 316,924 (86.4) | 11,380 (75.7) | < 0.001 |
≥2 | 49,996 (13.6) | 3653 (24.3) | ||
Anxiety diagnosis (child) | Yes | 391,447 (99.8) | 15,397 (99.2) | < 0.001 |
No | 628 (0.2) | 121 (0.8) | ||