Table 1

Baseline participant characteristics by study group

	Near-limits abortion	First-trimester abortion*	Turnaway- birth*	Turnaway-no- births*	Total	p Value†
Demographics	(n=404)	(n=252)	(n=157)	(n=50)	(N=863)
Age, year, mean±SD	24.9±5.9	25.9±5.7‡	23.5±5.6‡	24.5±6.2	24.9±5.8	<0.001
Race/ethnicity, %		‡				0.059
White	32	39	25	42	33
Black	32	32	34	28	32
Hispanic/Latina	21	21	27	14	22
Other	15	8	13	16	13
Highest level of education, %						0.313
Less than high school	19	16	24	20	19
High school or GED	34	31	34	26	33
Some college, associates or technical school	40	42	36	46	40
College degree	7	11	6	8	8
Employed, %	54	63‡	39‡	48	54	<0.001
Marital status, %						0.396
Single	79	77	83	78	79
Married	8	11	10	6	9
Divorced/widowed	13	13	6	16	12
Pregnancy-related characteristics
Gestational age, weeks, mean±SD	19.9±4.1	7.8±2.4‡	23.4±3.4‡	19.2±4.0‡	17.0±7.0	<0.001
Parity, %						0.226
0 previous births	34	38	47	40	38
1 previous birth	30	23	21	28	26
2 previous births	18	20	17	20	19
3 or more previous births	18	18	15	12	17
History of abuse, sexual assault, intimate partner violence and substance use, %
Child/abuse neglect	27	27	26	14	26	0.197
History of sexual assault or rape	21	23	21	18	21	0.646
Experienced physical or psychological violence from an intimate partner in the past year	23	24	17	12	22	0.121
Any illicit drug use before discovering pregnancy	13	17	14	8	14	0.219
Problem alcohol use before discovering pregnancy	4	7	7	10	6	0.215
Mental health
History of depression or anxiety disorder	24	30	21	30	26	0.230
PTSD screen, mean±SD, %	0.85±1.26	0.92±1.32	0.86±1.24	0.98±1.45	0.88±1.28	0.848
0 symptoms (not at risk)	62	60	60	62	61
1–2 symptoms (not at risk)	23	23	24	20	23
3–4 symptoms (at risk)	15	17	17	18	16	0.990

*When compared to Near-limits abortion group.
†Global comparison test.
‡p<0.05.There were no missing responses for any of the variables presented, except for reports on problem alcohol use which had three missing responses.
PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.