Variation in Self-Perceived Fecundity among Young Adult U.S. Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals' perceptions of their fecundity, or biological ability to bear children, have important implications for health behaviors, including infertility help-seeking and contraceptive use. Little research has examined these perceptions among U.S. women.

Methods

This cross-sectional study examines perceptions of one's own fecundity among U.S. women aged 24 to 32 who participated in the 2009-2011 rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997) cohort. Analyses were limited to 3,088 women who indicated that they or their partners never received a doctor's diagnosis regarding fertility difficulties.

Results

Of the women in the sample, 67% perceived their hypothetical chances of becoming pregnant as very likely; the remainder perceived their chanc

SUBMITTER: Gemmill A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7769880 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature