Chapter 3 56 section to illustrate the findings. Respondents’ answers were not cited, nor did we calculate the number of reasons provided by the respondents. Outcomes were presented for two groups separately: a group of respondents who populated the questionnaire as (former) patients and a group of close ones who represent the views of a close relation experiencing mental health problems. Additionally, we stratified responses for (former) patients and close ones with and without children. Confirmative responses were compared between men versus women or (former) patients with versus without children by Chi2 tests with a p-value considered significant at <0.05. Results The questionnaire was populated by 381 panel members (response rate of 9%). One respondent was excluded due to age <18 years, and two respondents failed to provide informed consent. Data from 378 respondents (354 (ex-)patients and 24 close ones) were included in the analyses (see Table 3.1 for sample characteristics). Close ones were family members (n=18), partners (n=4), or friends (n=2). Respondents were mostly women (81.2%); nearly half of them were urban living (54.5%) and higher educated (50.2%). Fifty-one respondents were men. Most respondents were diagnosed with ≥1 mental health problems (95.5%), and (history of) symptoms of depression (58.7%) were most frequently reported. The inter-rater reliability for the classification of self-reported mental health problems was κ=0.70 (p<0.001), indicating a good level of agreement between the assessors17,18. Domain 1: Reproductive history The reproductive history of women and men is presented in Figure 3.1. Supplementary Table S3.1 provides all raw data supporting Figure 3.1. The proportion of unintended pregnancies in this sample was 21.7%. Unintended pregnancies occurred in almost half of all respondents (45.4%) who were ever pregnant (or the biological father of an unintended pregnancy in the case of men) (data not presented). Amongst the (former) patients, women had significantly more pregnancies (47.8% versus 11.8%, p<0.001) and children (46.4% versus 11.8%, p<0.001) compared to men (see Figure 3.1). Respondents elaborated on the relationship between unintended pregnancies and mental health problems with examples: alcoholism led to the contraceptive method being unreliable and attention deficit attributed to an unintended pregnancy through obliviousness. The proportion of
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