Pregnancy Decision-Making Among Women With Physical Disabilities: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Understand the pregnancy informational needs and decision-making of women with physical disabilities.

Design

Cross-sectional.

Setting

Community.

Sample

114 adult American women with physical disabilities who had experience making a decision about pregnancy while disabled.

Methods

Online survey.

Main outcome measures

Pregnancy information needs and decision-making survey.

Results

Among the most important factors (very much-quite a bit) for decision-making were risks to the baby (72.8%) and themselves (58.7%), happiness of their partner (65.8%), and long-term effects of pregnancy on health (58.8%). Most had the least (not at all-a little bit) knowledge about equipment to care for an infant (57.9%), how to adapt as their body changed

SUBMITTER: Kalpakjian CZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12853368 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature