3.1 Total cohort of women with SCI from the 2017 community SwiSCI survey
A total of 440 women with SCIs participated in the 2017 SwiSCI cohort study. Reproductive behaviour and reproductive life stage information is presented in Table 1. At the time of the survey, almost one in four women (24%) was in the fertile stage. One in two women was childless (n=205), while 64 women gave birth to their first child after sustaining an SCI. Few women (n=8) delivered a child before and after the SCI event.
Figure 1 presents the percentage of women who delivered a child after the SCI event grouped by age at the time of injury. Only women who provided information about their age at injury were considered (n=402). Overall, 72 women had a delivery after the SCI event. Of those, nine (21%) women were aged 31-35 years, and two (5%) women were aged 36+ years when sustaining an SCI.