title: Communication patterns and problems of pregnancy.
abstract: Communication patterns of women who had never been pregnant were compared with those of women who had two or more unplanned pregnancies. Results of a questionnaire assessing communication skills, social orientation and involvement, self-disclosure, physical accessibility, and verbal defensiveness, completed by 56 women attending family planning clinics, suggest that communicative inadequacies may contribute to repeated contraceptive failure.
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D012649:Self Concept; D014705:Verbal Behavior