Improving abortion underreporting in the USA: a cognitive interview study

Autor: Jennifer Mueller, Marielle Kirstein, Alicia VandeVusse, Laura D. Lindberg
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Culture, Health & Sexuality. 25:126-141
ISSN: 1464-5351
1369-1058
Popis: Abortion is a difficult-to-measure behaviour with extensive underreporting in surveys, which compromises the ability to study and monitor it. We aimed to improve understanding of how women interpret and respond to survey items asking if they have had an abortion. We developed new questions hypothesised to improve abortion reporting, using approaches that aim to clarify which experiences to report; reduce the stigma and sensitivity of abortion; reduce the sense of intrusiveness of asking about abortion; and increase respondent motivation to report. We conducted cognitive interviews with cisgender women aged 18-49 in two US states (
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