Adolescent Reproductive Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs and Future Fatherhood.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

With a growing focus on the importance of men's reproductive health, including preconception health, the ways in which young men's knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) predict their reproductive paths are understudied. To determine if reproductive KAB predicts fatherhood status, timing and residency (living with child or not).

Methods

Reproductive KAB and fatherhood outcomes were analyzed from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a 20-year, nationally representative study of individuals from adolescence into adulthood. Four measures of reproductive KAB were assessed during adolescence in waves I and II. A generalized linear latent and mixed model predicted future fatherhood status (nonfather, resident/nonresident father, adolescent father) and tim

SUBMITTER: Garfield CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5052073 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature