title: Mental Health Diagnoses 3 Years After Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion in the United States.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We set out to assess the occurrence of new depression and anxiety diagnoses in women 3 years after they sought an abortion.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted semiannual telephone interviews of 956 women who sought abortions from 30 US facilities. Adjusted multivariable discrete-time logistic survival models examined whether the study group (women who obtained abortions just under a facility's gestational age limit, who were denied abortions and carried to term, who were denied abortions and did not carry to term, and who received first-trimester abortions) predicted depression or anxiety onset during seven 6-month time intervals.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The 3-year cumulative probability of professionally diagnosed depression was 9% to 14%; for anxiety it was 10% to 15%, with no study group differences. Women in the first-trimester group and women denied abortions who did not give birth had greater odds of new self-diagnosed anxiety than did women who obtained abortions just under facility gestational limits.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Among women seeking abortions near facility gestational limits, those who obtained abortions were at no greater mental health risk than were women who carried an unwanted pregnancy to term.
authors.affiliation: M. Antonia Biggs and Diana G. Foster are with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland. John M. Neuhaus is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: M Antonia
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Biggs
authors.affiliation: M. Antonia Biggs and Diana G. Foster are with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland. John M. Neuhaus is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Neuhaus
authors.affiliation: M. Antonia Biggs and Diana G. Foster are with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland. John M. Neuhaus is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: Diana G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Foster
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology*; D000029:Abortion, Legal / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016015:Logistic Models; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011247:Pregnancy; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult