Results
Table 1, below, shows the number of women from a total of 84,620 Danish
women who had a first-time, first-trimester abortion who received either
a first-time inpatient or outpatient treatment in each of the time
frames reported in the original paper, plus the cumulative data during
the first nine months after their abortions, or within twelve months
after their abortions. A total of 868 women had a first psychiatric
contact in the nine months before their abortions, leaving total of
83,752 women, of whom 1,277 had had psychiatric contact during the
subsequent twelve months. For each row of Table 1, the rate is
calculated as the average rate of psychiatric contact per month per ten
thousand women (yes divided by no times ten thousand). The increase in
rate relative to the baseline was greatest relative to psychiatric
contact for personality or behavioral disorders followed by neurotic,
stress related, or somatoform disorders. Overall, the average rate of
first-time psychiatric contact in terms of cases per month per 10,000
women was 11.52 prior to a first abortion and 12.90 cases afterwards as
cumulatively measured over the full course of the 12 months examined.