title: Race/Ethnicity and pregnancy decision making: the role of fatalism and subjective social standing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Rates of unintended pregnancy in the United States differ by race and ethnicity. We examined whether these differences might be explained by maternal fatalism and subjective social standing.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used data from 1070 pregnant women of sociodemographically diverse backgrounds enrolled in prenatal care in the San Francisco Bay area. Logistic regression was used to explore the relationship between attitude variables and a measure of pregnancy decision making ("not trying to get pregnant").
  
  
  RESULTS
  African American women were more likely than others to report not trying to get pregnant with the current pregnancy (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 2.04, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.22-3.43, p = 0.007). Higher subjective social standing was associated with a lower likelihood of not trying among white and U.S.-born women only (AOR 0.67, p = 0.001 and AOR 0.75, p < 0.001, respectively. Fatalism was associated with not trying in bivariate but not multivariable analyses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this population, the likelihood of reporting not trying to get pregnant was higher among racial/ethnic minorities regardless of subjective social standing. Programs aimed at reduction in unintended pregnancy rates need to be targeted to a broader population of women.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0132, USA. bryanta@obgyn.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Allison S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Bryant
authors.forename: Sanae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Steven E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Gregorich
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuppermann
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D003469:Culture; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011247:Pregnancy; D049168:Pregnancy, Unplanned / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D012923:Social Class; D055815:Young Adult
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