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.