ArticleBMC public health2023
Pregnancy intentions of young women in Canada in the era of climate change: a qualitative auto-photography study.
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- The impacts of climate change on women's reproductive and sexual health: a systematic review.Reproductive health · 2026Pooled it
- From conception to care: a systematic review of the impact of the climate crisis on reproductive justice.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Pooled it
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- The association between women's climate change anxiety, awareness of maternal-fetal health impacts, and their desire to avoid pregnancy.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Association between climate change awareness and psychological distress among Turkish pregnant women: A cross-sectional study.Medicine · 2026Article
- The relationship between climate change anxiety levels and fertility awareness levels in a sample of women in Turkey: a cross-sectional study.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- Conceptualizing Young People's Experiences of Climate Change Awareness: A Narrative Review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Navigating parenthood in a climate change era: determinants of childbearing intentions in Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Towards a unified conceptual framework of eco-anxiety: mapping eco-anxiety through a scoping review.Cogent mental health · 2025Review
- Mental health impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on mothers.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Climate anxiety, coping strategies and planning for the future in environmental degree students in the UK.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Impact of Climate Change Education on Pregnant Women's Anxiety and Awareness.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
backgroundClimate change poses a global health risk through consequences such as sea level rise, wildfires, and increased air pollution. Children born today and in the future may be disproportionately affected by climate change. As a result, many young adults are rethinking having children. The impacts of the climate crisis on the decision-making of parents is an understudied area of research. This study aims to be one of the first to explore how climate change impacts the pregnancy intentions of young women in Canada and their perspectives towards childbearing.
methodsWe conducted auto-photography and qualitative interviews. Participants were recruited using social media, and were aged 18-25, nulliparous, assigned female at birth, and were either current or previous residents of British Columbia, Canada. We asked participants to take photos that responded to the question, "Show us how climate change impacts your decision to have a family," then complete a virtual, one-on-one interview during which photo-elicitation was employed to guide conversation about participants' decision-making related to childbearing and climate change. We subjected all transcribed interviews to qualitative thematic analysis.
resultsWe conducted in-depth interviews with seven participants who discussed a total of 33 photographs. Analysis of participants' interviews and photographs identified themes of eco-anxiety, hesitancy towards having children, sense of loss, and a desire for systemic change. Participants experienced anxiety, grief, and loss when faced with thoughts of change associated with their environments. Climate change impacted all but two participants' childbearing decision making, which was found to be interrelated with social-environmental factors, such as cost of living.
conclusionWe aimed to identify the ways in which climate change may impact youth decisions to have a family. Further research on this topic is needed to understand the prevalence of this phenomenon, and to build such considerations into climate action policy and family planning tools used among young people.
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