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ArticleContraception2015

How does religious affiliation affect women's attitudes toward reproductive health policy? Implications for the Affordable Care Act.

Elizabeth W Patton, Kelli Stidham Hall, Vanessa K Dalton

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Article in Contraception, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Contraceptive Coverage and the Affordable Care Act.Obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth W PattonRobert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Institute for Health Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Electronic address: pattone@umich.edu.
Kelli Stidham HallDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Program on Women's Healthcare Effectiveness Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Vanessa K DaltonDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Institute for Health Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Program on Women's Healthcare Effectiveness Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
University of Michigan · US

Funding

Michigan BIRCWH Career Development ProgramK12HD001438 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI JOHNSON, TIMOTHY RB · 2000 to 2014
$6.7M
NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD001438NICHD NIH HHS K12HD001-438
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSupreme Court cases challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate for employer-provided reproductive health care have focused on religiously based opposition to coverage. Little is known about women's perspectives on such reproductive health policies. STUDY

designData were drawn from the Women's Health Care Experiences and Preferences survey, a randomly selected, nationally representative sample of 1078 US women aged 18-55 years. We examined associations between religious affiliation and attitudes toward employer-provided insurance coverage of contraception and abortion services as well as the exclusion of religious institutions from this coverage. We used chi-square and multivariable logistic regression for analysis.

resultsRespondents self-identified as Baptist (18%), Protestant (Other Mainline, 17%), Catholic (17%), Other Christian (20%), Religious, Non-Christian (7%) or No Affiliation (21%). Religious affiliation was associated with proportions of agreement for contraception (p=.03), abortion (p<.01) and religious exclusion (p<.01) policies. In multivariable models, differences in the odds of agreement varied across religious affiliations and frequency of service attendance. For example, compared to non-affiliated women, Baptists and Other Nondenominational Christians (but not Catholics) had lower odds of agreement with employer coverage of contraception (OR 0.63, 95% CI 0.4-0.1 and OR 0.57, CI 0.4-0.9, respectively); women who attended services weekly or more than weekly had lower odds of agreement (OR 0.53, 95% CI 0.3-0.8 and OR 0.33, CI 0.2-0.6, respectively), compared to less frequent attenders.

conclusionsRecent religiously motivated legal challenges to employer-provided reproductive health care coverage may not represent the attitudes of many religious women. IMPLICATIONS: Recent challenges to the ACA contraceptive mandate appear to equate religious belief with opposition to employer-sponsored reproductive health coverage, but women's views are more complex.

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Attitude to HealthReligionAbortion, InducedAdolescentAdultChi-Square DistributionContraceptionFemaleHealth Benefit Plans, EmployeeHumansInsurance CoverageLogistic ModelsMiddle AgedPatient Protection and Affordable Care ActPregnancyReproductive HealthAffordable Care ActContraceptionPolicyReligion

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