ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
Decrease in reproductive desires among non-parent heterosexual women during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland: the role of epidemiological stress, socioeconomic status, and reproductive rights.
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- Determinants of fertility intentions in a low-fertility region of Central Europe: a cross-sectional survey of 1,092 respondents in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences on men's reproductive health.Biophysical reviews · 2025Review
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Introduction: Deterioration of economic conditions, societal uncertainty, and negative expectations about the future have all been linked to delayed childbearing plans. All these negative circumstances can be related to epidemiological stress, which in turn becomes one of the culprits for changes in fertility plans. This study aims to analyze the individual factors that decrease the probability of wanting to have children after exposure to epidemiological stress from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods: Recruitment was conducted between April and July 2021. Participants who were heterosexual, non-parent, and non-pregnant without a diagnosis of infertility completed an online, anonymous survey providing information on sociodemographic variables, COVID-19 exposure, COVID-19-related stress, and changes in their reproductive desires. Multiple logistic regression models were used to analyze the data. Participants were also given the opportunity to provide a descriptive explanation for changes in fertility desires due to the pandemic or the political situation (abortion restrictions coinciding with the pandemic in Poland), which was then used for qualitative analysis. Results: A total of 706 participants completed the survey (mean age = 28.11, SD = 4.87, min = 19, max = 47). We found that (1) the desire to have children decreased in 43.3% of respondents, and (2) women with higher levels of epidemiological stress were more likely to report a decrease in their desired number of children than the less-stressed ones, after adjusting for potential covariates (aOR = 1.064, 95%CI = 1.03-1.10, Conclusion: The situation in Poland during the COVID-19 restrictions provided a unique combination of political and epidemiological stressors, showing that women's reproductive desires were related to pandemic stress (less so with the exposure to disease) and limitation of reproductive rights.
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