Comparison of Pregnancy Preferences Preceding vs Year 1 of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic affected people's desire to avoid pregnancy is essential for interpreting the pandemic's associations with access to reproductive health care and reproductive autonomy. Early research is largely cross-sectional and relies on people's own evaluations of how their desires changed.

Objective

To investigate longitudinal changes in pregnancy desires during the year before and the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cohort study, participants reported their pregnancy preferences at baseline and quarterly for up to 18 months between March 2019 and March 2021. An interrupted time series analysis with mixed-effects segmented linear regression was used to examine population-averaged ti

SUBMITTER: Rocca CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9257576 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature