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 4

Factors associated with children’s social care involvement at one-year postdischarge (n = 218).

	Covariate	Unadjusted (univariable)		Adjusted (multivariable)
Maternal background	Age	0.94 (0.89–0.99)	0.029	0.99 (0.92–1.06)	0.710
	No higher education	5.77 (2.33–14.28)	<0.001	3.88 (1.20–12.56)	0.023
	Childhood trauma (CTQ)	1.04 (1.02–1.06)	<0.001	1.03 (1.01–1.06)	0.003
	Ethnicity: White	Reference		Reference
	Black	1.27 (0.42–3.78)	0.673	1.28 (0.28–5.87)	0.753
	Asian	0.66 (0.18–2.39)	0.525	0.78 (0.17–3.66)	0.753
	Mixed	0.47 (0.06–3.94)	0.486	0.15 (0.01–2.07)	0.155
	Other	1.23 (0.31–4.88)	0.765	2.21 (0.33–14.67)	0.409
Relationships	Domestic abuse (CAS)	2.68 (1.36–5.27)	0.004	0.84 (0.26–2.66)	0.764
	Single/no partner	6.55 (3.12–13.75)	<0.001	5.73 (1.80–18.22)	0.003
Mental health diagnosis and substance use	Personality disorder	3.81 (1.80–8.06)	<0.001	1.14 (0.39–3.33)	0.814
	Schizophrenia	2.88 (1.01–8.17)	0.047	2.69 (0.58–12.41)	0.204
	Learning disability	3.12 (1.39–6.99)	0.006	1.45 (0.52–4.07)	0.478
	Substance use	3.47 (1.49–8.12)	0.004	2.50 (0.80–7.81)	0.115
Service use	Prior admissions	2.82 (1.35–5.89)	0.006	1.82 (0.65–5.14)	0.257
	Re-admission	3.48 (1.78–6.84)	<0.001	2.83 (1.17–6.85)	0.021