UNINTENDED PREGNANCY IN FOUR LOW INCOME GROUPS

四个低收入群体的意外怀孕

• 批准号: 2403531
• 负责人: WARREN B MILLER
• 金额: $ 24.92万
• 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/2403531
• 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 意外怀孕的衡量标准，然后使用该衡量标准来探索 文化、二元和个人心理因素导致意外 怀孕。更具体地说，拟议的研究将使用概念性的 方案和相关测量仪器，先前已验证 主要是欧洲裔美国人、中产阶级样本，用于非预期研究 四个不同种族/民族的低收入样本中的怀孕情况 在加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉县。使用计划生育诊所作为 采样资源并使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。 其中三百对夫妇最近进行了妊娠测试，并且 先前开发的概念方案和测量仪器 怀孕意向将通过以下方式进行测试、修改和完善 对其中的男性和女性伴侣进行探索性访谈 情侣。然后，利用通过这些探索获得的知识， 所有 400 对夫妇将每 6 次接受一次更结构化的采访 为期 2 年的几个月，目标是理解和预测四个 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 将包括多项式 Logit、生存分析和线性结构 方程建模并将致力于开发多元 所有四种避孕行为的模型并对其进行测试 跨性别、种族/族裔群体的差异模型 生殖阶段。