Adverse life experiences and risk of unintended pregnancy in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for toxic stress and reproductive health

Objective: We examined the effects of adverse life experiences (ALEs) on rates of unintended first pregnancy, including differential effects by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, among women in a national longitudinal cohort study. Methods: We drew upon 15-years of data from 8810 adolescent an...

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Main Authors: Kelli Stidham Hall, Jennifer L. Beauregard, Shelby T. Rentmeester, Melvin Livingston, Kathleen Mullan Harris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827318301320