... world, as pregnancy and childbirth have become safer and maternal mor-tality rates have declined, awareness has grown in the clinical and research communities of psychological factors associated ... unmarried; pregnancy status was not reported (Tezcan & Guciz Dogan, 1990). Ganatra & Hirve (2002), in a population survey of mortality associated with abortion in Maharashtra, India, ... healthapparent at one month. Most conceptualizations take a categorical approach, in which individuals are classified as satisfying the criteria for a clini-cal case, or are regarded as well. Some authors,...