ArticlePerspectives on sexual and reproductive health2022
Randomized experimental testing of new survey approaches to improve abortion reporting in the United States.
Article in Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Patterns of Prior Induced Abortions and the Likelihood of Subsequent Natural Pregnancy Loss: Exploratory Application of Pregnancy Outcome Sequencing.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Combining the list-experiment and direct question to improve estimation of abortion incidence.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Assessing induced abortion underreporting in restrictive settings using prospective morbidity surveys from Kenya, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Lifetime abortion incidence when abortion care is covered by Medicaid: Maryland versus five comparison states.Health services research · 2024Article
- Self-Managed Abortion Attempts Before vs After Changes in Federal Abortion Protections in the US.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- "Technically an abortion": Understanding perceptions and definitions of abortion in the United States.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Training in Residency and Provision of Reproductive Health Services Among Family Medicine Physicians.JAMA network open · 2023Observational
- Randomized experimental testing of new survey approaches to improve abortion reporting in the United States.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2022Article
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Abstract
contextAbortions are substantially underreported in surveys due to social stigma, compromising the study of abortion, pregnancy, fertility, and related demographic and health outcomes.
methodsIn this study, we evaluated six methodological approaches identified through formative mixed-methods research to improve the measurement of abortion in surveys. These approaches included altering the placement of abortion items in the survey, the order of pregnancy outcome questions, the level of detail, the introduction to the abortion question, and the context of the abortion question, and using graduated sensitivity. We embedded a preregistered randomized experiment in a newly designed online survey about sexual and reproductive health behaviors (N = 6536). We randomized respondents to experimental arms in a fully crossed factorial design; we estimated an average treatment effect using standardized estimators from logistic regression models, adjusted for demographic covariates associated with reporting.
resultsNone of the experimental arms significantly improved abortion reporting compared to the control condition.
conclusionMore work is needed to improve reporting of abortion in future surveys, particularly as abortion access becomes increasingly restricted in the United States. Despite this study's null results, it provides a promising path for future efforts to improve abortion measurement. It is proof of concept for testing new approaches in a less expensive, faster, and more flexible format than embedding changes in existing national fertility surveys.
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