Demographic diversity in the measurement and meaning of unintended pregnancy

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Author	Aiken, Abigail R. A.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Unintended pregnancy is a major and persistent public health issue in the United States. Almost half of the 6.7 million pregnancies occurring each year are estimated to be unintended, and this figure has remained virtually unchanged in the past decade. A potential barrier to preventing unintended pregnancies and their associated adverse health outcomes is that women’s pregnancy intentions are not straightforward to measure and interpret. Indeed, an unresolved paradox is that women frequently report feeling happy about pregnancies they also classify as unintended (i.e. they have incongruent intentions and feelings). Understanding whether such incongruence is a reflection of ambivalence or happiness at the idea of pregnancy despite strong desire to prevent conception is particularly important for addressing racial and ethnic disparities in unintended pregnancy, since Latinas are more likely to report incongruent intentions and feelings than non-Hispanic whites.
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