title: Does fertility-specific distress vary by race/ethnicity among a probability sample of women in the United States?
abstract: This study explored whether fertility-specific distress varied by race/ethnicity among a nationally representative sample of US women. Participants were 2363 White (n = 1266), Black (n = 569), Hispanic (n = 453), and Asian (n = 51) women who participated in the National Survey of Fertility Barriers. Participants were given the Fertility-Specific Distress Scale and assessed for strength of pregnancy intent, primary versus secondary infertility, and socioeconomic hardship. Black women reported lower levels of fertility-specific distress than White women, but these were fully mediated by the strength of pregnancy intentions. Primary versus secondary infertility and economic hardship were not associated with fertility-specific distress.
authors.affiliation: Alfred University, USA fgreil@alfred.edu.
authors.forename: Arthur L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Greil
authors.affiliation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McQuillan
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
authors.forename: Delida
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sanchez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006296:Health Services; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D033182:Intention; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology*; D014481:United States
keywords: black; disparities; distress; ethnicity; hispanic; infertility; race; white