ArticlePerspectives on sexual and reproductive health2015
Happiness about unintended pregnancy and its relationship to contraceptive desires among a predominantly Latina cohort.
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- Pregnancy Attitudes and Contraceptive Use among Young Adults with Histories of Foster Care.Children and youth services review · 2018Article
- Reproductive Life Planning: Raising the Questions.Maternal and child health journal · 2018Article
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- Racial/ethnic differences in contraceptive preferences, beliefs, and self-efficacy among women veterans.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2017Article
- Change and consistency in US women's pregnancy attitudes and associations with contraceptive use.Contraception · 2017Article
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Abstract
contextWomen frequently profess happiness about unintended pregnancies; such incongruence is associated with use of less effective contraceptive methods and inconsistent or incorrect method use. Yet, the methods women use may differ from those they desire.
methodsData on 578 women were drawn from a prospective survey of postpartum women aged 18-44 recruited from three hospitals in Texas between 2012 and 2014. Jonckheere-Terpstra tests were used to compare women's feelings about a future pregnancy with their childbearing intentions. Fisher-Freeman-Halton tests compared distributions of contraceptive methods currently used and desired by women who professed happiness about a future unintended pregnancy, as well as distributions of desired methods by women's reported feelings.
resultsThe proportion of women who reported happiness about a future pregnancy was 59% among those intending to wait two or three years for another child, 46% among those intending to wait four or more years, and 36% among those intending to have no more children. Among women who professed happiness, a greater proportion desired to use a highly effective contraceptive method than were currently using one (72% vs. 15% among those intending no more children; 55% vs. 23% among those intending to wait at least four years; and 36% vs. 10% among those intending to wait two or three years). Across intention categories, the types of methods desired did not differ by whether women professed happiness or unhappiness.
conclusionsWomen who profess happiness about a future unintended pregnancy may nonetheless desire highly effective contraceptive methods.
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