title: Men Aged 15-44 in Need of Preconception Care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Preconception care for men focuses on prevention strategies implemented prior to conception of a first or subsequent pregnancy to improve pregnancy and infant outcomes. Little is known about U.S. men in need of preconception care. This analysis describes the proportion of men in need of preconception care and associations of these needs by background characteristics, related health conditions, access to care and receipt of services.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from men aged 15-44 in the National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2010 were analyzed to describe men in need of preconception care, based on future childbearing intentions and self and partner fecundity status (among sexually experienced only), and associated factors with these needs using weighted bivariate analyses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  About 60 % of men are in need of preconception care. Higher prevalence of being in need was observed among men aged 15-29 than older; living in urban than non-urban settings; in school than not in school regardless of working status; not in a coresidential union than married or cohabiting; who were recent immigrants than U.S. born; and reporting never having had a child than ≥1 child(ren). Men in need were overweight/obese (56 %), ever binge drank in the last year (58 %), and have high STI risk (21 %). The majority of men in need reported access to care in the last year (>70 %), but few reported receipt of services including STD/HIV testing (<20 %) or counseling (<11 %).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings from this analysis have implications for promoting preconception care among U.S. men.
authors.affiliation: Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Ifta
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Choiriyyah
authors.affiliation: Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Freya L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Sonenstein
authors.affiliation: Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Nan M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Astone
authors.affiliation: Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Pleck
authors.affiliation: Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Jacinda K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Dariotis
authors.affiliation: Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics and Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, 200 N. Wolfe St, Room 2062, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. amarcell@jhu.edu.
authors.forename: Arik V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Marcell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015438:Health Behavior; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D054526:Men's Health; D016742:Preconception Care; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Healthcare access; Men’s health; Preconception health; Prevention strategies