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Author: Billings, Deborah L.
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Billings, Deborah L. |
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Women's Marital Status May Not Have Been Accurate in Study: Letter in re: Depression and Unintended Pregnancy in Young Women British Medical Journal 324,7345 (May 2002): 1097. Also: http://www.bmj.com/content/324/7345/1097.full Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group, Ltd. - British Medical Journal Publishing Group Keyword(s): Abortion; Depression (see also CESD); Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Psychological Effects Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Note: This is a critique of Reardon and Cougle article "Depression and Unintended Pregnancy in Young Women." See NLS Bibliography entry #3866 and #3941. EDITORS--everal methodological flaws in Reardon and Cougle's analysis undermine the conclusions stated.1 There are two in particular. Firstly, in one study cited in the article higher scores on the Rotter scale correlated with higher depression scores. However, the scale measures locus of control; it is not a measure of depression and thus is not a valid indicator of prior psychological state or prior depression. Secondly, women included in the sample were categorised in the analysis according to marital status in 1992, yet data regarding first abortion or first unintended delivery are taken from 1980-92, with abortions and deliveries on average occurring between 1984 and 1986. Marital status in 1992 was not necessarily the marital status of women included in the sample during their first abortion or first unintended delivery. Thus basing the analysis and conclusions on the categories of married versus unmarried women is invalid and is not meaningful. Given these observations, more rigorous analysis of the data is needed before any conclusions can be drawn about the link between depression and unintended pregnancy and marital status. |
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Billings, Deborah L. "Women's Marital Status May Not Have Been Accurate in Study: Letter in re: Depression and Unintended Pregnancy in Young Women." British Medical Journal 324,7345 (May 2002): 1097.
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Kahn, Robert S. Goddik, Steen Billings, Deborah L. Blanchard, Dallas A. Reardon, David C. Cougle, Jesse R. |
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Depression and Unintended Pregnancy in Young Women: Comments & Letters British Medical Journal 324,7345 (May 2002): 1097. Also: http://www.bmj.com/content/324/7345/1097.full Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group, Ltd. - British Medical Journal Publishing Group Keyword(s): Abortion; Depression (see also CESD); Health, Mental/Psychological; Methods/Methodology; Pregnancy, Adolescent Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Comments on the D. C. Reardon and J. R. Cougle examination of depression and unintended pregnancy in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Billings discusses two methodological flaws in the analysis that undermine the conclusions stated. It is concluded that more rigorous analysis of the data is needed before any conclusions can be drawn about the link between depression and unintended pregnancy and marital status. (PsycINFO Database Record © 2002 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Kahn, Robert S., Steen Goddik, Deborah L. Billings, Dallas A. Blanchard, David C. Reardon and Jesse R. Cougle. "Depression and Unintended Pregnancy in Young Women: Comments & Letters." British Medical Journal 324,7345 (May 2002): 1097.
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