Predictive ability of the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A longstanding gap in the reproductive health field has been the availability of a screening instrument that can reliably predict a person's likelihood of becoming pregnant. The Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale is a new measure; understanding its sensitivity and specificity as a screening tool for pregnancy as well as its predictive ability and how this varies by socio-demographic factors is important to inform its implementation.

Methods

This analysis was conducted on a cohort of 994 non-pregnant participants recruited in October 2018 and followed up for one year. The cohort was recruited using social media as well as advertisements in a university, school, abortion clinic and outreach sexual health service. Almost 90% of eligible participants completed follow-up

SUBMITTER: Hall JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10521409 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature