The relationship between motherhood and use of mental health care services among married migrant and non-migrant women: a national register study

Table 4 Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for outpatient mental health service use with interactions ^a,b

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
	(n=81908)	(n=81908)	(n=81908)	(n=81908)
Non-mother	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Mother, perinatal	0.92 (0.85-1.04)^	0.86 (0.77-0.95)**	0.94 (0.86-1.02)
Mother, > perinatal	0.92 (0.83-1.01)^	0.85 (0.75-0.95)**	0.93 (0.85-1.03)
Mother				0.90 (0.82-0.99)*
Non-migrants	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Migrants, Western	0.68 (0.61-0.77)***	0.62 (0.53-0.72)***	0.90 (0.78-1.02)	0.85 (0.71-1.02)*
Migrants, non-Western	0.61 (0.55-0.67)***	0.54 (0.48-0.62)***	0.80 (0.71-0.90)**	0.71 (0.61-0.84)***
No or weak labour market attachment	1.45 (1.33-1.57)**	1.44 (1.33-1.57)***	1.96 (1.77-2.16)***	2.01 (1.77-2.27)***
Mother, perintal * Western		1.27 (0.97-1.66)
Mother, perintal * non-Western		1.29 (1.03-1.60)*
Mother, >perintal* Western		1.30 (0.95-1.79)
Mother, >perintal* non-Western		1.35 (1.06-1.72)*
No/Weak labour market attachment* Western			0.41 (0.32-0.53)***
No/Weak labour market attachment* non-Western			0.48 (0.39-0.58)***
Non-motherno/weak labour market attachment Western				0.41 (0.30-0.55)***
Non-motherno/weak labour market attachment non-Western				0.49 (0.39-0.62)***
Motherno/weak labour market attachmentnon-migrants				0.91 (0.74-1.10)
Motherno/weak labour market attachment Western				0.51 (0.33-0.78)**
Motherno/weak labour market attachment non-Western				0.52 (0.39-0.71)***
Motherstable labour market attachmentWestern				1.19 (0.90-1.58)
Motherstable labour market attachment non-Western				1.28 (1.02-1.61)*

^a based on married women aged 25-40 years; ^b adjusted for age, education level and frequent primary healthcare attendance *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.

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