1. Does fertility-specific distress vary by race/ethnicity among a probability sample of women in the United States?
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Greil AL, McQuillan J, and Sanchez D
- Subjects
- Adult, Female, Health Services, Humans, Infertility psychology, Interviews as Topic, Pregnancy, Sampling Studies, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Ethnicity statistics & numerical data, Infertility ethnology, Intention, Racial Groups psychology, Stress, Psychological ethnology
- Abstract
This study explored whether fertility-specific distress varied by race/ethnicity among a nationally representative sample of US women. Participants were 2363 White (n = 1266), Black (n = 569), Hispanic (n = 453), and Asian (n = 51) women who participated in the National Survey of Fertility Barriers. Participants were given the Fertility-Specific Distress Scale and assessed for strength of pregnancy intent, primary versus secondary infertility, and socioeconomic hardship. Black women reported lower levels of fertility-specific distress than White women, but these were fully mediated by the strength of pregnancy intentions. Primary versus secondary infertility and economic hardship were not associated with fertility-specific distress., (© The Author(s) 2014.)
- Published
- 2016
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