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Cohen, Alison K. Kazi, Chandni Headen, Irene Rehkopf, David Hendrick, C. Emily Patil, Divya Abrams, Barbara |
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Educational Attainment and Gestational Weight Gain among U.S. Mothers Women's Health Issues 26,4 (July-August 2016): 460-467. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049386716300457 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Educational Attainment; Gestation/Gestational weight gain; Weight Methods: We used data from 1979 through 2010 for women in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) cohort (n = 6,344 pregnancies from 2,769 women). We used generalized estimating equations to estimate the association between educational attainment and GWG adequacy (as defined by 2009 Institute of Medicine guidelines), controlling for diverse social factors from across the life course (e.g., income, wealth, educational aspirations and expectations) and considering effect measure modification by race/ethnicity and prepregnancy overweight status. Results: In most cases, women with more education had increased odds of gaining a recommended amount of gestational weight, independent of educational aspirations and educational expectations and relatively robust to sensitivity analyses. This trend manifested itself in a few different ways. Those with less education had higher odds of inadequate GWG than those with more education. Among those who were not overweight before pregnancy, those with less education had higher odds of excessive GWG than college graduates. Among women who were White, those with less than a high school degree had higher odds of excessive GWG than those with more education. |
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Cohen, Alison K., Chandni Kazi, Irene Headen, David Rehkopf, C. Emily Hendrick, Divya Patil and Barbara Abrams. "Educational Attainment and Gestational Weight Gain among U.S. Mothers." Women's Health Issues 26,4 (July-August 2016): 460-467.
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Gemmill, Alison Sedlander, Erica Bornstein, Marta |
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Variation in Self-Perceived Fecundity among Young Adult U.S. Women Women's Health Issues published online (21 August 2020): DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2020.07.002. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049386720300670 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Ethnic Differences; Expectations/Intentions; Fertility; Racial Differences 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 chances as somewhat likely (13%), not as likely (15%), or provided a "don't know" response (6%). Twenty-six percent of Black women and 19% of Latina women perceived themselves as not very likely to become pregnant, compared with only 12% among non-Black/non-Latina women (p < .001). Only 6% of women with a college degree perceived their chances of becoming pregnant as not very likely, compared with 36% among women without a high school degree (p < .001). Racial/ethnic and educational differences persisted in fully adjusted models. Other factors associated with fecundity self-perceptions include partnership status, parity, fertility expectations, sexual activity, prolonged exposure to unprotected intercourse for at least 6 and/or 12 months without becoming pregnant, and self-rated health. |
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Gemmill, Alison, Erica Sedlander and Marta Bornstein. "Variation in Self-Perceived Fecundity among Young Adult U.S. Women." Women's Health Issues published online (21 August 2020): DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2020.07.002. |
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Wise, Akilah Geronimus, Arline T. Smock, Pamela Jane |
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The Best of Intentions: A Structural Analysis of the Association between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unintended Pregnancy in a Sample of Mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) Women's Health Issues 27,1 (January-February 2017): 5-13. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049386716302754 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Disadvantaged, Economically; Educational Attainment; First Birth; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Wantedness Methods: Using multivariate regression, we analyze a sample of women in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) who had their first births by 1994. We test whether an index measure of educational advantage in youth predicts unintended first birth. Results: Unadjusted results confirm well-documented associations between educational disadvantage and greater likelihood of unintended pregnancy. However, once covariates are controlled, those with high educational advantage in youth are more likely to report their first birth as mistimed (relative risk ratio, 1.57). Discussion: Educational advantage captures expectations about how much education a young woman will obtain before giving birth and is a structural dynamic that precedes proximate factors related to family planning access and behaviors. Conclusions: These findings highlight the need to incorporate structural factors that condition perceptions of pregnancy intention in the study of unintended pregnancy and to critically reevaluate the conceptualization and interpretation of pregnancy intention measures. |
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Wise, Akilah, Arline T. Geronimus and Pamela Jane Smock. "The Best of Intentions: A Structural Analysis of the Association between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unintended Pregnancy in a Sample of Mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979)." Women's Health Issues 27,1 (January-February 2017): 5-13.
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