ArticleContraception2018
A prospective measure of unintended pregnancy in the United States.
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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
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- Trends in Utilization of Emergency Contraceptives in Tanzania: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study From 2018 to 2023.Cureus · 2024Article
- Association of pregnancy attitudes and intentions with sexual activity and psychiatric symptoms in justice-involved youth.Children and youth services review · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the Hindi version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy among pregnant and postnatal women in urban India.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Young adult US-born Latina women's thoughts, feelings and beliefs about unintended pregnancy.Culture, health & sexuality · 2020Article
- Pathways to Parenthood in Social and Family Context: Decade in Review, 2020.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- The role of pregnancy intendedness and prenatal contraceptive counseling on postpartum contraceptive use.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2020Article
- Shining the light on abortion: Drivers of online abortion searches across the United States in 2018.PloS one · 2020Article
- Prospective Attitude about the Importance of Planning Pregnancies Is Associated with Retrospective Attitude toward a Specific Pregnancy.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe a new measure, the unintended pregnancy risk index (UPRI), which is based primarily on attitudinal and behavioral measures of women's prospective pregnancy desire, and compare it to the unintended pregnancy rate, typically calculated retrospectively. STUDY
designWe used three rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth to calculate trends in the UPRI and compare it to the retrospective rate. The UPRI estimates the annual risk of becoming unintentionally pregnant on a scale from 0 to 100. It is based on women's prospective pregnancy desire as well as fecundity, sexual activity and contraceptive use patterns.
resultsAmong all women aged 15-34, the UPRI ranged from 7.4 in 2002 to 5.7 in 2013. The retrospective unintended pregnancy rate had similar levels and declines for the same overall period, although the UPRI declined earlier than the retrospective rate.
conclusionsChanges in the use of any contraceptive method, the methods used and the effectiveness of the methods used all contributed to the decline in the UPRI. IMPLICATIONS: The sufficiency of retrospective measures of pregnancy intention has been challenged, and data availability has constrained needed surveillance of the unintended pregnancy rate. The UPRI offers a new measure that can be calculated with existing national surveillance data or for any population for which data on prospective pregnancy desire, pregnancy risk and contraceptive use are available.
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