UNINTENDED PREGNANCY IN FOUR LOW INCOME GROUPS

四个低收入群体的意外怀孕

• 批准号: 2673885
• 负责人: WARREN B MILLER
• 金额: $ 27.29万
• 依托单位: TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-04-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2673885
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; contraceptives; data collection; dyadic interaction; ethnic group; female; interview; low socioeconomic status; pregnancy; sex behavior; unwanted child; urban poverty area

The long-term objectives of the proposed research are to further validate a measure of unintended pregnancy and then use that measure to explore the cultural, dyadic, and individual psychological antecedents to unintended pregnancy. More specifically, the proposed research will use a conceptual scheme and related measurement instrument, previously validated on predominantly European American, middle-class samples, to study unintended pregnancy in four racially/ethnically different, low-income samples living in Santa Clara County, California. Using Planned Parenthood clinics as a sampling resource and amplifying the sample with a snowball technique, 400 stable couples will be studied at four different reproductive stages. Three hundred of these couples will have had a recent pregnancy test and the previously developed conceptual scheme and measurement instrument for pregnancy intendedness will be tested, modified, and refined through exploratory interviews with both the male and female partners in those couples. Then, using the knowledge acquired through those explorations, all 400 couples will be interviewed with a more structured format every 6 months for 2 years with the goal of understanding and predicting four types of contraceptive behavior: contraceptive method selection, effectiveness of use, non-use, and switching. Data analysis techniques will include multinomial logit, survival analysis, and linear structural equation modeling and will be directed toward developing multivariate models of all four types of contraceptive behavior and testing those models for differences across gender, racial/ethnic group, and reproductive stage.

拟议研究的长期目标是进一步验证 一个衡量意外怀孕的标准，然后用这个标准来探索 文化的，二元的，和个人的心理前因，以无意的 怀孕更具体地说，拟议的研究将使用一个概念 方案和相关测量仪器，之前已在 主要是欧洲裔美国人，中产阶级样本， 四个不同种族/民族的低收入样本的怀孕情况， 位于加州圣克拉拉县。利用计划生育诊所作为 采样资源并利用滚雪球技术放大样本，400 将在四个不同的生殖阶段对稳定的夫妇进行研究。 其中300对夫妇最近进行了怀孕测试， 以前制定的概念计划和衡量工具， 怀孕意向将通过以下方式进行测试、修改和完善： 对这些人的男性和女性伴侣进行了探索性采访， 夫妻。然后，利用从这些探索中获得的知识， 所有400对夫妇将接受采访，每6 为期两年，目标是了解和预测四个月 避孕行为的类型：避孕方法的选择， 使用、不使用和转换的有效性。数据分析技术 将包括多项logit，生存分析和线性结构分析。 方程建模，并将致力于发展多元 所有四种避孕行为的模型， 性别、种族/族裔群体之间差异的模型， 生殖阶段