'It’s not something you expect a 15-year-old to be sad about': Sources of Uncertainty and Strategies of Uncertainty Management among Adolescent Women Who Have Experienced Miscarriage
| Autor: | Alison N Buckley, Whittney H. Darnell, Allison M Gordon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Health (social science) Adolescent Decision Making Emotions Population 050801 communication & media studies Abortion Miscarriage Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Social support 0508 media and communications Pregnancy medicine Humans education education.field_of_study 030505 public health Information seeking Communication 05 social sciences Behavior change Uncertainty Social Support Cognitive reframing medicine.disease Abortion Spontaneous Pregnancy in Adolescence Female 0305 other medical science Psychology Psychosocial Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Health Communication. 34:1795-1805 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7027 1041-0236 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10410236.2018.1536947 |
| Popis: | Approximately 10%-25% of adolescent pregnancies end in miscarriage, yet we know little about the experience of miscarriage among women in this age group. To better understand the medical and psychosocial challenges faced by adolescent women who experience a miscarriage, we conducted interviews with 31 college-aged women who had experienced a miscarriage between the ages of 15 and 19. We analyzed interview transcripts using qualitative descriptive analysis and found that adolescent women experience various medical (e.g., insufficient medical knowledge, unknown etiology), personal (e.g., competing identities, lack of autonomy in decision-making), and relational (e.g., emotional invalidation, relational insecurity) sources of uncertainty in miscarriage in ways that are unique to the population of adolescent women. Women in our sample appraised their uncertainty positively and negatively (sometimes simultaneously) and reported using a variety of management strategies to facilitate their desired level of uncertainty, including information seeking, avoidance, health behavior change, and reframing the miscarriage. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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