Differences in access and utilisation of mental health services in the perinatal period for women from ethnic minorities—a population-based study

Table 4 Numbers and percentages of women formally detained during the first admission in the perinatal period by ethnicity

	Ethnicity	Women with a mental health admission in the perinatal period, n	Women detained under mental health act during the first admission in the perinatal period, n (%)	95% LCL (%)	95% UCL (%)
A	White British	443	130 (29.3)	25.3	33.7
B	Irish	**	**	**	**
C	Other White backgrounds	67	38 (56.7)*	44.8	67.9
D	White and Black Caribbean	**	**	**	**
E	White and Black African	**	**	**	**
F	White and Asian	**	**	**	**
G	Other mixed backgrounds	**	**	**	**
H	Indian	9	7 (77.8)*	45.3	93.7
J	Pakistani	39	26 (66.7)*	51.0	79.4
K	Bangladeshi	19	13 (68.4)*	46.0	84.6
L	Other Asian backgrounds	17	11 (64.7)*	41.3	82.7
M	Caribbean	12	4 (33.3)	13.8	60.9
N	African	39	24 (61.5)*	45.9	75.1
P	Any other Black backgrounds	13	5 (38.5)	17.7	64.5
R	Chinese	**	**	**	**
S	Other ethnic groups	34	17 (50.0)*	34.1	65.9
	Total	713	282

Table shows the number of women aged 18+ who had a birth episode in 2017 who had one or more mental health inpatient admissions recorded during their perinatal period (and where their first recorded contact in the dataset was also within their perinatal period). It provides the number of these who also had a Mental Health Act legal status classification (formally detained under the Mental Health Act) starting on, during or up to 7 days prior to their first admission. The proportion of women with a mental health admission who had a corresponding legal status indicating they were formally detained is shown along with 95% confidence intervals)
LCL lower confidence limit, UCL upper confidence limit
*Proportion is significantly different (p < 0.05) from the White British group
**Numbers are suppressed due to small numbers < 5

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