What Are the Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics and Needs of Mothers Who Access Acute Postpartum Psychiatric Care and Have Children’s Social Care Involvement?

Table 3

Factors associated with children’s social care involvement during the acute admission (n = 278).

	Covariate	Unadjusted (univariable)		Adjusted (multivariable)
Maternal	Age	0.94 (0.90–0.98)	0.007	0.99 (0.94–1.05)	0.689
Background	No higher education	3.98 (2.23–7.11)	<0.001	2.21 (1.08–4.53)	0.031
	Childhood trauma (CTQ score)	1.03 (1.02–1.05)	<0.001	1.02 (1.00–1.04)	0.015
	Ethnicity: White	Reference		Reference
	Black	1.93 (0.77–4.85)	0.162	2.22 (0.71–6.99)	0.171
	Asian	1.52 (0.66–3.51)	0.331	1.66 (0.60–4.62)	0.333
	Mixed	1.10 (0.31–3.89)	0.879	0.65 (0.14–3.09)	0.585
	Other	0.43 (0.09–2.04)	0.287	0.55 (0.78–3.81)	0.542
Relationships	Domestic abuse (CAS score)	3.90 (2.23–6.82)	<0.001	2.47 (1.13–5.40)	0.023
	Single/no partner	4.02 (2.13–7.59)	<0.001	1.44 (0.60–3.45)	0.414
Mental health diagnosis and substance use	Personality disorder	5.47 (2.79–10.72)	<0.001	2.57 (1.11–5.94)	0.027
	Schizophrenia	6.61 (2.09–20.89)	0.001	7.56 (2.06–27.66)	0.002
	Learning disability	1.93 (0.94–3.98)	0.074	0.77 (0.32–1.87)	0.568
	Substance use	3.09 (1.42–6.73)	0.004	1.78 (0.67–4.77)	0.250
Service use	Prior admissions	4.14 (2.15–8.00)	<0.001	2.70 (1.15–6.34)	0.023