Psychological profile of dysphoric women postabortion.
Women who identified themselves as having poorly assimilated the abortion experience were surveyed using a demographic questionnaire, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and the Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI). Eighty-one surveys were returned from the sample of 150 women. Seventeen percent (N = 12) of the women had had multiple abortions. Women with multiple abortions scored significantly higher on the BDI and also scored higher on the borderline personality subscales of the MCMI. Besides multiple abortions, other risk factors for postabortion dysphoria identified in this study were premorbid psychiatric illness, lack of family support, ambivalence, and feeling coerced into having an abortion.
Franco
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Tamburrino
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Campbell
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Pentz
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Jurs
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D000029:Abortion, Legal / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*