Physical and emotional well-being for women with and without disability
| Physical condition or illness | Sensory loss | Mental health disability | Learning disability | Multiple disabilities | No disability | ||
| Antenatal period | |||||||
| MW always aware of medical history | n (%) | 378 (44.1*) | 80 (48.8) | 238 (43.5*) | 67 54.5 | 60 (50.8) | 8523 (48.7) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.84 (0.72 to 0.97) | 0.95 (0.67 to 1.34) | 0.83 (0.70 to 0.99) | 1.28 (0.87 to 1.87) | 1.02 (0.68 to 1.52) | ||
| MW definitely asked how feeling emotionally | n (%) | 438 (52.0**) | 105 (63.3) | 392 (60.2) | 73 (60.8) | 70 (60.3) | 9882 (56.4) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.81 (0.70 to 0.95) | 1.19 (0.84 to 1.68) | 1.16 (0.97 to 1.37) | 1.23 (0.83 to 1.84) | 1.03 (0.68 to 1.57) | ||
| Postnatal care after discharge home | |||||||
| MW always aware of medical history | n (%) | 542 (69.0***) | 114 (74.0) | 438 (71.5***) | 88 75.2 | 77 (71.3) | 12 855 (78.0) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.63 (0.54 to 0.75) | 0.83 (0.56 to 1.23) | 0.73 (0.60 to 088) | 1.00 (0.63 to 1.58) | 0.71 (0.44 to 1.15) | ||
| MW took personal circumstances into account | n (%) | 482 (65.4***) | 94 (63.9**) | 379 (64.7***) | 68 (63.0*) | 67 (65.7) | 11 071 (74.3) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.69 (0.58 to 0.82) | 0.60 (0.42 to 0.87) | 0.59 (0.49 to 0.71) | 0.59 (0.39 to 0.90) | 0.61 (0.39 to 0.97) | ||
| Women informed of need to arrange own PN check | n (%) | 731 (90.2) | 150 (90.4) | 549 (89.3**) | 100 (85.5**) | 91 (82.0***) | 15 825 (92.3) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.80 (0.62 to 1.05) | 0.74 (0.42 to 1.31) | 0.73 (0.55, 0.97) | 0.55 (0.31 to 0.99) | 0.73 (0.21 to 0.65) | ||
| MW/HV asked how feeling emotionally | n (%) | 804 (94.9***) | 159 (95.2) | 623 (95.1**) | 115 (92.0**) | 114 (96.6) | 17 295 (97.2) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.52 (0.37 to 0.74) | 0.57 (0.27 to 1.21) | 0.56 (0.38 to 0.83) | 0.39 (0.19 to 0.77) | 1.15 (0.40 to 3.29) | ||
| Definitely given enough information about emotional changes | n (%) | 421 (51.2***) | 93 (57.8) | 330 (52.0**) | 71 (58.2) | 63 (56.3) | 9689 (57.6) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.76 (0.66 to 0.89) | 0.9 (0.64 to 1.28) | 0.77 (0.65 to 0.91) | 0.99 (0.67 to 1.47) | 0.84 (0.56 to 1.27) | ||
| Told who to contact about emotional changes | n (%) | 520 (69.1***) | 102 (72.9) | 428 (71.7) | 81 (69.8) | 81 (75.0) | 11 603 (75.3) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.76 (0.64 to 0.90) | 0.92 (0.61 to 1.38) | 0.84 (0.69, 1.03) | 0.84 (0.55 to 1.30) | 0.98 (0.60 to 1.61) | ||
| Definitely given advice about physical recovery | n (%) | 409 (48.1***) | 98 (60.1) | 311 (47.9***) | 66 (54.1) | 55 (48.7***) | 10 066 (56.1) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.72 (0.62 to 0.84) | 1.20 (0.83 to 1.67) | 0.64 (0.54 to 0.76) | 0.90 (0.61 to 1.32) | 0.74 (0.67 to 0.82) | ||
| Given information/advice about contraception | n (%) | 740 (88.0***) | 143 (88.8) | 558 (86.8***) | 100 (85.5*) | 93 (86.9) | 16 237 (92.0) |
| aOR (95% CI) | 0.66 (0.52 to 0.83) | 0.84 (0.50 to 1.41) | 0.54 (0.42, 0.69) | 0.56 (0.32 to 0.99) | 0.55 (0.30 to 1.01) | ||
Number and proportion of women with various types of disability, ORs and 95%CIs weighted for variation in response rates by trust and adjusted for age, parity and ethnicity compared with women without disability.
Sensory disability: visually impaired, deaf and hearing impaired.
*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.
aOR, adjusted OR; MW, midwife.