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Feelings versus actions : comparing pregnancy intendedness and pregnancy planning in South Carolina, 2004-2007
South Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Smith, Michael Wilkerson, Kristin Helms, Kristen
South Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
Smith, Michael
Wilkerson, Kristin
Helms, Kristen
Abstract
While the concept of pregnancy intendedness conveys preconception feelings and attitudes about becoming pregnant, pregnancy planning refers to a woman's behaviors and actions before she became pregnant. That is, pregnancy planning reflects
the presence or absence of actions to prevent or avoid pregnancy. Since behaviors and actions are more concrete than feelings and attitudes, ascertaining a measure of pregnancy planning retrospectively may be less prone to recall bias and confusion with other concepts. Analyzing pregnancy planning also allow for the study of pregnancies that seem to be neither planned nor unplanned, a group that has been largely overlooked.
Issue Date
2009-08-24
Keywords
Health surveys--South Carolina, Pregnancy--South Carolina--Statistics, Family planning--South Carolina
Type
Text
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