ArticleDemography2015
Pregnancy intentions, maternal behaviors, and infant health: investigating relationships with new measures and propensity score analysis.
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- Immediate Versus Delayed Postpartum and Postabortion Insertion of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: An Umbrella Review.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2026Pooled it
- Association between pregnancy intention and completion of newborn and infant continuum of care in Sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Pregnancy Intention and Pregnancy Outcome: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Pooled it
- Multiple Unintended Pregnancies in U.S. Women: A Systematic Review.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthPooled it
- The influence of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on stress, anxiety and depression due to unwanted pregnancy: a randomized clinical trial.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2021Trial
- Psychosocial status and prenatal care of unintended pregnancies among low-income women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Trial
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- Moving Beyond Unintended Pregnancy: Development of a Person-Centered Conceptual Framework and Measure of Self-Assessed Pregnancy Acceptability.Studies in family planning · 2026Article
- Distributions of Adverse Childbearing Experiences Across Racial and Ethnic Groups: A Research Note.Demography · 2025Article
- Pregnancy Intentions and Maternal Health Behaviours: Observational Study in 18 African Countries.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025Observational
- More than intentions: Importance of motherhood predicts first but not subsequent births.Advances in life course research · 2025Article
- Trends in Risk of Pregnancy Loss Among US Women by Metropolitan Status, 2000-2018.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2025Article
- Unintended pregnancy: Risk factors and perinatal outcomes in a nulliparous population.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Birth prevalence and associated factors of congenital anomalies among neonates born at a public hospital in Awi Zone, Northwestern Ethiopia: institutional based cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Changes in Hormonal Contraceptive Dispensing Trends Among Commercially Insured Kentucky Females During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2025Article
- Public Coverage of Postpartum Services for Immigrants.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
- Inequitable Screening for Pregnancy Intention by Race, Insurance, and Site of Care in Two High-Volume Urban Obstetric Hospitals.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2025Article
- State reproductive rights policies and unintended pregnancy.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
The premise that unintended childbearing has significant negative effects on the behavior of mothers and on the health of infants strongly influences public health policy and much of current research on reproductive behaviors. Yet, the evidence base presents mixed findings. Using data from the U.S. National Survey of Family Growth, we employ a measure of pregnancy intentions that incorporates the extent of mistiming, as well as the desire scale developed by Santelli et al. (Studies in Family Planning, 40, 87-100, 2009). Second, we examine variation in the characteristics of mothers within intention status groups. Third, we account for the association of mothers' background characteristics with their pregnancy intentions and with the outcomes by employing propensity score weighting. We find that weighting eliminated statistical significance of many observed associations of intention status with maternal behaviors and birth outcomes, but not all. Mistimed and unwanted births were still less likely to be recognized early in pregnancy than intended ones. Fewer unwanted births received early prenatal care or were breast-fed, and unwanted births were also more likely than intended births to be of low birth weight. Relative to births at the highest level of the desire scale, all other births were significantly less likely to be recognized early in pregnancy and to receive early prenatal care.
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