A Couple-Level Approach to Preventing Unintended Pregnancy among Young Latinas

防止年轻拉丁裔意外怀孕的夫妻层面方法

• 批准号: 8923081
• 负责人: Anu Manchikanti Gomez
• 金额: $ 22.56万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8923081
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PROJECT SUMMARY Anu Manchikanti Gomez, PhD, MSc, is a public health researcher and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality at San Francisco State University. Dr. Gomez's long-term career objective is to develop partner-based interventions for young men and women that promote healthy relationships and contraceptive use, especially among minority and immigrant youth in the US. Moreover, she aims to conduct innovative, policy-relevant research that considers other contextual risk factors for adverse reproductive health. The NICHD K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award will provide the necessary support for Dr. Gomez to receive essential training for studying the determinants of unintended pregnancy at the couple level, particularly in the areas of social psychology, dyadic research methods, and intervention and policy development. The proposed research focuses on 18-24-year-old Latina women and their male partners. Nearly half of all pregnancies in the US during 2001 were unintended, with the highest unintended birth rate among Latina women. Moreover, young women between the ages of 18-24 are more likely to experience an unintended pregnancy than any other age group of women. Efforts to decrease unintended pregnancies among young Latinas have been hindered by lack of understanding of how relationship dynamics, cultural context, and pregnancy intentions among couples combine to reduce effective contraceptive use. The proposed, mixed methods research will address this gap by: (1) identifying the influences of a couple's relationship factors on pregnancy intentions; (2) developing a culturally appropriate, couple-level measure of ambivalence towards pregnancy intentions; and (3) testing the association of pregnancy intentions and relationship factors to contraceptive use over time. It is expected that this research will reveal aspects of couple-level relationship dynamics specific to young Latina women and their partners, and provide unique and powerful data to inform the development of an intervention in the future.

项目概要 Anu Manchikanti Gomez 博士、理学硕士是公共卫生研究员和博士后研究员 旧金山州立大学性别与性行为研究中心。戈麦斯博士的长期 职业目标是为青年男女制定基于伙伴的干预措施，促进健康 人际关系和避孕药具的使用，特别是在美国的少数族裔和移民青年中。而且，她 旨在进行创新的、与政策相关的研究，考虑其他不利的背景风险因素 生殖健康。 NICHD K99/R00 独立之路奖将提供必要的 支持戈麦斯博士接受必要的培训，以研究意外怀孕的决定因素 夫妻层面，特别是社会心理学、二元研究方法、干预和干预等领域 政策制定。拟议的研究重点关注 18-24 岁的拉丁裔女性及其男性 合作伙伴。 2001 年，美国近一半的怀孕是意外怀孕，其中意外怀孕率最高 拉丁裔女性的出生率。此外，18-24岁之间的年轻女性更有可能 比其他年龄段的女性更容易发生意外怀孕。努力减少意外发生 年轻拉丁裔女性的怀孕因缺乏对人际关系如何的了解而受到阻碍 夫妻之间的动态、文化背景和怀孕意愿结合在一起，降低了有效 避孕药具的使用。拟议的混合方法研究将通过以下方式解决这一差距：（1）确定 夫妻关系因素对怀孕意愿的影响； (2) 制定适合文化的、 夫妻层面对怀孕意愿的矛盾心理测量； (3) 测试关联性 怀孕意愿以及随时间推移与避孕药具使用的关系因素。预计这项研究 将揭示年轻拉丁裔女性及其伴侣特有的夫妻关系动态的各个方面， 并提供独特而强大的数据，为未来干预措施的制定提供信息。