Oral abstracts

Objectives: Research on how major disruptive events – pandemics, wars, and economic recessions – influence people's pregnancy intentions and fertility yields mixed findings. Experts have speculated about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnancy desires, but existing research has major limitations, including being cross-sectional, relying on people's perceptions of their preference changes (rather than documenting actual changes), and lacking valid measures.

Source: Contraception - September 7, 2021 Category: OBGYN Authors: CH Rocca, M Parra, I Munoz, DG Foster, WJ Boscardin, L Ralph Source Type: research