Measuring factors underlying intendedness of women's first and later pregnancies.

摘要: CONTEXT: Unintended pregnancy is associated with poor health outcomes for mothers and infants, indicative of gaps in family planning services. Conventional measures intendedness do not reflect the multiple factors affecting a woman's pregnancy-related intentions attitudes METHODS: Data collected between March 2002 February 2003 from 701 women public clinic 671 prenatal New Orleans were analyzed to examine underlying (including attitudes toward motivations achieve or avoid pregnancy) RESULTS: In factor analyses, variables measuring represented by single latent factor, desirability. For first pregnancy, that best captured desirability those happiness, effort achieving extent looking forward telling friends, whether was intended (i.e., came at right time later), woman wanted have baby her partner. last current pregnancies second higher order ones, they wantedness, planned Among younger than 18 happiness partner only items desirability CONCLUSIONS Future surveys on could reduce number questions used capture This should help standardize surveillance systems permit better assessment trends over