Late-Term Elective Abortion and Susceptibility to Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

Table 3

Percentage of respondents from the early and late abortion groups meeting PTSD subscale and full scale criteria.

Dependent variables	Early Abortion (up to 12 weaks) $n=307$	Late Abortion (13–30 weaks) $n=52$
Met DSM-IV criteria for intrusion	82.1%	91.8%
Met DSM-IV criteria for avoidance	73.3%	76.5%
Met DSM-IV criteria for hyper-arousal	60.1%	67.4%
Met DSM-IV criteria for PTSD generally	52.5%	67.4%