ArticleFertility and sterility2016
Pregnancy intentions-a complex construct and call for new measures.
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- A systematic review of non-binary measures of pregnancy perceptions, attitudes and reactions, and associated outcomes.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Pregnancy intentions and contraceptive uptake after miscarriage.Contraception · 2020Trial
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- Comparing Approaches to Measuring Prospective Fertility Desires in the United States: A Population-based Study.Maternal and child health journal · 2026Article
- Contraceptive Alignment: A Descriptive Study of Concordance between Preferred and Actual Contraceptive Method Use.Studies in family planning · 2026Article
- Armed Conflict and Unwanted Births in Colombia.Journal of health and social behavior · 2026Article
- Moving Beyond Unintended Pregnancy: Development of a Person-Centered Conceptual Framework and Measure of Self-Assessed Pregnancy Acceptability.Studies in family planning · 2026Article
- More than intentions: Importance of motherhood predicts first but not subsequent births.Advances in life course research · 2025Article
- Predictors of Desire to Avoid Pregnancy: The Roles of Marital Satisfaction and Fear of Childbirth.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Pregnancy Preferences and Incident Pregnancy in the US.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Associations Among Sociodemographic and Contextual Factors and Youth Pregnancy Preferences.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Article
- Association Between State Abortion Restrictiveness and Perinatal Depression.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2025Article
- Undesired Births, Contraception, and Abortion Before and After the Cairo Consensus: Trends in Conditional Undesired Birth Rates and the Impact of Contraception and Abortion.Studies in family planning · 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
- Preconception health policy, health promotion, and health services to achieve health in current and future generations: a narrative review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Review
- Pregnancy intention, preconception health, health behaviours, and information and health advice seeking among expectant male partners.BMC primary care · 2025Article
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- A history of recurrent pregnancy loss is associated with increased perinatal complications, but not necessarily a longer birth interval: a population study spanning 18 years.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Reproductive autonomy and the experience of later-than-desired pregnancy: results from a cross-sectional survey of reproductive-aged women in Uganda.Reproductive health · 2024Article
- A Multidimensional and Longitudinal Exploratory Study of the Stability of Pregnancy Contexts in the United States.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo estimate the prevalence of unintended pregnancies under relaxed assumptions regarding birth control use compared with a traditional constructed measure.
designCross-sectional survey.
settingNot applicable. PATIENT(S): Nationally representative sample of U.S. women aged 15-44 years. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Prevalence of intended and unintended pregnancies as estimated by [1] a traditional constructed measure from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), and [2] a constructed measure relaxing assumptions regarding birth control use, reasons for nonuse, and pregnancy timing. RESULT(S): The prevalence of unintended pregnancies was 6% higher using the traditional constructed measure as compared with the approach with relaxed assumptions (NSFG: 44%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 41, 46; new construct 38%, 95% CI, 36, 41). Using the NSFG approach, only 92% of women who stopped birth control to become pregnant and 0 women who were not using contraceptives at the time of the pregnancy and reported that they did not mind getting pregnant were classified as having intended pregnancies, compared with 100% using the new construct. CONCLUSION(S): Current measures of pregnancy intention may overestimate rates of unintended pregnancy, with over 340,000 pregnancies in the United States misclassified as unintended using the current approach, corresponding to an estimated savings of $678 million in public health-care expenditures. Current constructs make assumptions that may not reflect contemporary reproductive practices, so improved measures are needed.
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