title: Identifying women at risk of unintended pregnancy: a comparison of two pregnancy readiness measures.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Recently, there has been interest in developing a predictive measure to assess pregnancy readiness/intention in clinical settings. Two such measures have been created but tested primarily in pregnant or postpartum populations. This study examined agreement between the pregnancy readiness measures in a diverse population of nonpregnant women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Women completed short questionnaires while waiting for clinical appointments. Participants' responses to the pregnancy readiness measures were cross-tabulated to assess the level of agreement between the measures. Logistic regression was used to determine factors related to disagreement between the measures. Complete information was available for 220 women.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Almost 55% of women had disagreement between the pregnancy readiness measures. Women with a high school education or less had 2.60 times the odds of disagreement (95% confidence interval 1.23-5.49), and women who did not use contraception had 2.40 times the odds of disagreement (95% confidence interval 1.18-4.87).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although both pregnancy readiness measures are promising tools that could potentially be adapted for use in public health or clinical settings, there are limitations to these measures. These measures should be further tested and refined through the use of qualitative methods to ensure that a valid measure is created for use in non-pregnant populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA. lrhuber@uncc.edu
authors.forename: Larissa R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Brunner Huber
authors.forename: Jordan E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Lyerly
authors.forename: Katie E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Farley
authors.forename: Tami
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Alkhazraji
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003268:Contraception Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D016015:Logistic Models; D011247:Pregnancy; D049168:Pregnancy, Unplanned / Q000523:psychology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult