ArticlePolicy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences2014
Psychological Aspects of Contraception, Unintended Pregnancy, and Abortion.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Influence of mental health conditions and symptoms on contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women: a scoping review.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Pooled it
- Psychiatric vulnerability and the risk for unintended pregnancies, a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Pooled it
- Exploring unintended pregnancy journeys among women with psychiatric vulnerability using interpretative phenomenological analysis.PloS one · 2026Article
- Exploring service providers' perspectives on facilitators and barriers to contraceptive uptake among women: implications for policy reform in Ghana.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2025Article
- [Prevalence of Unwanted Pregnancies and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women With Mental Illness. Findings from the ELSA Study].Psychiatrische Praxis · 2025Article
- Perspectives on Contraceptives: Insights From Care Providers and Women With Lived Experiences of Unintended Pregnancy in the Netherlands.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2025Article
- Unplanned pregnancy and perinatal depression: secondary exploratory analyses from a racially and ethnically diverse, low-income sample of birthing people in the United States.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- The Association Between Medically Assisted Reproduction and Postpartum Depression: A Register-Based Cohort Study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025Article
- Investigating the relationship between spousal violence against women and total fertility rate in Afghanistan.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Unplanned pregnancy and the association with maternal health and pregnancy outcomes: A Swedish cohort study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Mercy Procedure or a Nightmare? Attitude towards Pregnancy Termination among Polish University Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Effects of positive psychology interventions on happiness in women with unintended pregnancy: randomized controlled trial.Heliyon · 2021Article
- A Nationwide Mystery Caller Evaluation of Oral Emergency Contraception Practices from German Community Pharmacies: An Observational Study Protocol.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Comparison of pregnancy complications in unintended and intended pregnancy: A prospective follow-up study.BioMedicine · 2021Article
- Risk factors for voluntary interruption of pregnancy and possible preventive public health actions.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2018Article
- Repeated abortion in adulthood induces cognition impairment in aged mice.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Community-based educational intervention on necklace method as a natural family planning amongst reproductive age group women in India.International journal of nursing sciences · 2018Article
- Are Past Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Associated with Maternal Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of Currently Pregnant Women?Ethiopian journal of health sciences · 2017Article
- Preventing Unintended Pregnancy Among Young Sexually Active Women: Recognizing the Role of Violence, Self-Esteem, and Depressive Symptoms on Use of Contraception.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2017Article
- Report of the procedure of voluntary interruption of pregnancy at a university hospital in Uruguay.Revista de saude publica · 2016Article
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Abstract
The knowledge of important biopsychosocial factors linking women's reproductive health and mental health is increasing. This review focuses on psychological aspects of contraception, unintended pregnancy, and abortion because these are common reproductive health experiences in U.S. women's lives. This review addresses the mental-health antecedents and consequences of these experiences, mostly focusing on depression and depressive symptoms before and after unintended pregnancy and contraception. As mental-health antecedents, depressive symptoms predict contraceptive behaviors that lead to unintended pregnancy, and mental-health disorders have been associated with having subsequent abortions. In examining the mental-health consequences, most sound research does not find abortion or contraceptive use to cause mental-health problems. Consequently, evidence does not support policies based on the notion that abortion harms women's mental health. Nevertheless, the abortion-care setting may be a place to integrate mental-health services. In contrast, women who have births resulting from unintended pregnancies may be at higher risk of postpartum depression. Social policies (e.g., paid maternity leave, subsidized child care) may protect women from mental-health problems and stress of unplanned children interrupting employment, education, and pre-existing family care responsibilities.
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