Long-term Recall of Time to Pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the widespread use of retrospectively reported time to pregnancy to evaluate fertility either as an outcome or as a risk factor for chronic disease, only two small studies have directly compared prospective data with later recall.

Methods

The North Carolina Early Pregnancy Study (1982-1986) collected prospective time-to-pregnancy data from the beginning of participants' pregnancy attempt. In 2010, (24-28 years later) women were sent a questionnaire including lifetime reproductive history that asked about all prior times to pregnancy. Of the 202 women with prospective time-to-pregnancy data, 76% provided recalled time to pregnancy.

Results

A lower proportion of women with times to pregnancy ≥3 cycles provided a recalled time to pregnancy than women w

SUBMITTER: Jukic AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5444084 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature