title: Psychiatric admissions and choice of abortion.
abstract: A statistical analysis is presented of the intensities of admissions to psychiatric hospitals among women in Denmark who either gave birth to a child in the year 1975 or had an induced abortion in the same year. The models used are time-continuous Markov and semi-Markov processes, and the methods employed include non-parametric and semi-parametric analysis of counting processes. The influence of prior psychiatric admissions on the choice of terminating the pregnancy with an induced abortion is also studied.
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000523:psychology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010343:Patient Admission; D011247:Pregnancy; D011336:Probability; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013269:Stochastic Processes