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Table 7 Crude odds ratios estimating associations between maternal characteristics and any mistreatment (n = 2138)

From: The Giving Voice to Mothers study: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States

 

n

OR

95% CI

Logistic Regression

Lower bound

Upper bound

SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHICS

 Maternal Race: Black (reference category: white)

2098

1.77

1.31

2.40

 Maternal Race: Hispanic (reference category: white)

2098

2.04

1.42

2.93

 Maternal Race: Asian (reference category: white)

2098

1.64

0.97

2.77

 Maternal Race: Indigenous (reference category: white)

2098

2.98

1.73

5.13

 Maternal Race: Women of colour (reference category: white women)

2098

1.91

1.51

2.41

 Age: 17 to 25 years (reference category: 31–39)

1956

1.71

1.08

2.69

 Age: 26–30 years (reference category: 31–39)

1956

1.15

0.88

1.49

 Age: Over 40 (reference category: 31–39)

1956

1.04

0.62

1.74

 Nulli/primiparity (reference category: multiparity)

2135

2.50

1.99

3.14

 Low SES - Yes (reference category: no)

2138

1.56

1.24

1.96

MEDICAL OR SOCIAL FACTORS

 Elevated pregnancy risk - Yes (reference category: no)

2138

2.28

1.78

2.92

 History of substance use, incarceration and/or IPV (social risk)- Yes (reference category: no)

2138

2.24

1.59

3.17

CONTEXT OF CARE

 Prenatal midwifery care (reference group: prenatal physician care)

2076

0.31

0.25

0.40

 Actual place of birth hospital or alongside birthing center (reference group: community birth)

2119

7.17

5.31

9.68

 Mode of birth unplanned Cesarean or operative vaginal delivery (reference group: planned Cesarean or spontaneous vaginal birth)

2129

3.72

2.79

4.97

 Difference in opinion with care provider (reference group: no difference in opinion with care provider)

2138

22.69

13.94

36.92