Stewart, Catherine;
Hall, Jennifer;
(2023)
Pregnancy Preparation Among Women and Their Partners in the UK: How Common Is It and What Do People Do?
Women's Reproductive Health
pp. 1-14.
10.1080/23293691.2023.2271919.
(In press).
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Abstract
Pregnancy preparation, to optimize health before pregnancy, has been shown to reduce adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. This study investigated the changes that women, and their partners, made in preparation for pregnancy. Analyses showed that less than half of women (n = 134, 49%) and only 24% of partners (n = 22) reported making any changes in preparation for pregnancy. Desire to Avoid Pregnancy (DAP) score was the only significant factor associated with pregnancy preparation; every 1-point increase in DAP reduced the odds of a woman reporting preparing for pregnancy by 78% (OR = 0.22, 95% CI = 0.15 to 0.34). This study highlights the need for interventions addressing pregnancy preparation.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Pregnancy Preparation Among Women and Their Partners in the UK: How Common Is It and What Do People Do? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23293691.2023.2271919 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23293691.2023.2271919 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Preconception, pregnancy, pregnancy planning, pregnancy preparation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health > Reproductive Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180947 |
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