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Measuring the effects of unintended pregnancy on women's quality of life.
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Contraception [Contraception] 2008 Sep; Vol. 78 (3), pp. 204-10. Date of Electronic Publication: 2008 Jul 22. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Background: This study was conducted to assess the potential impact of an unintended pregnancy on women's quality of life.<br />Study Design: We asked 192 nonpregnant women to report how they would feel if they learned that they were pregnant using a visual analog scale (VAS), a time trade-off (TTO) metric, a standard gamble (SG) metric and a willingness-to-pay (WTP) metric.<br />Results: Women's anticipated responses to an unintended pregnancy varied widely. Using a VAS, 8% reported pregnancy would make them feel like they were dying. To avoid pregnancy, 28% of women were willing to trade time from the end of their life (TTO), 16% of women were willing to accept an immediate risk of death (SG) and 60% of women were willing to pay some amount of money (WTP). On average, women, using the VAS, TTO and SG metrics, reported that an unintended pregnancy would create a health utility state (where 0 represents death and 1 represents perfect health) of 0.487, 0.992 and 0.997, respectively.<br />Conclusion: The anticipated effects of pregnancy on women's quality of life should be integrated into cost-effectiveness analyses of family planning services.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0010-7824
- Volume :
- 78
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Contraception
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 18692610
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2008.04.120