title: Partnered Decisions? U.S. Couples and Medical Help-seeking for Infertility.
abstract: We examined male partners' influence on the decision to seek medical help for infertility using from the National Survey of Fertility Barriers. Building upon an existing help-seeking framework, we incorporated characteristics of both partners from 219 heterosexual couples who had ever perceived a fertility problem. In logistic regression analyses, we found an association between couple-level attitudes and medical help-seeking even when other predisposing and enabling conditions existed. Overall, the findings highlight that both partners contribute to the infertility help-seeking process, and that different factors may play a role in different stages of help-seeking. Studies of infertility help-seeking need to be more inclusive of the context that these decisions are embedded within to better understand service use.
authors.affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Katherine M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Johnson