Clustering of characteristics associated with unplanned pregnancies: the generation R study.

ABSTRACT: Unplanned or unintended pregnancies form a major public health concern because they are associated with unfavorable birth outcomes as well as social adversity, stress and depression among parents-to-be. Several risk factors for unplanned pregnancies in women have previously been identified, but studies usually take a unidimensional approach by focusing on only one or few factors, disregarding the possibility that predictors might cluster. Furthermore, data on predictors in men are largely overlooked. The purpose of this study is to determine predictors of unplanned versus planned pregnancy, to determine predictors of ambivalent feelings regarding pregnancy, and to investigate how characteristics of men and women with an unplanned pregnancy cluster together. This study was embedded in Gener

SUBMITTER: Enthoven CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9590126 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature