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1.	Russo, Nancy Felipe Dabul, Amy J.
1.	The Relationship of Abortion to Well-Being. Do Race and Religion Make a Difference? Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 28,1 (February 1997): 23-31. Also: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pro/28/1/23/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Abortion; Adolescent Behavior; Childbearing; Education; Ethnic Differences; Health, Mental/Psychological; Income; Legislation; Racial Differences; Religion; Religious Influences; Well-Being Relationships of abortion and childbearing to well-being were examined for 1,189 Black and 3,147 White women. Education, income, and having a work role were positively and independently related to well-being for all women. Abortion did not have an independent relationship to well-being, regardless of race or religion, when well-being before becoming pregnant was controlled. These findings suggest professional psychologists should explore the origins of women's mental health problems in experiences predating their experience with abortion, and they can assist psychologists in working to ensure that mandated scripts from "informed consent" legislation do not misrepresent scientific findings. ((c) 1997 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved).
	Bibliography Citation Russo, Nancy Felipe and Amy J. Dabul. "The Relationship of Abortion to Well-Being. Do Race and Religion Make a Difference?" Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 28,1 (February 1997): 23-31.

2.	Russo, Nancy Felipe Zierk, K.
2.	Abortion, Childbearing, and Women's Well-Being Professional Psychology, Research and Practice 23 (1992): 269-280. Also: http://www.prochoiceforum.org.uk/psy_research5.asp Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Abortion; Adolescent Behavior; Childbearing; Data Quality/Consistency; Ethnic Differences; Fertility; Health, Mental/Psychological; Legislation; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Racial Differences; Religious Influences; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Self-Esteem; Well-Being This study is based on a secondary analysis of NLSY interview data from 5,295 women who were interviewed annually from 1979 to 1987. Among this group 773 women were identified in 1987 as having at least one abortion, with 233 of them reporting repeat abortions. Well-being was assessed in 1980 and 1987 by the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The researchers used analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression to examine the combined and separate contributions of preabortion self-esteem, contextual variables (education, employment, income, and marital status), childbearing (being a parent, numbers of wanted and unwanted children) and abortion (having one abortion, having repeat abortions, number of abortions, time since last abortion) to women's post abortion self-esteem.
	Bibliography Citation Russo, Nancy Felipe and K. Zierk. "Abortion, Childbearing, and Women's Well-Being." Professional Psychology, Research and Practice 23 (1992): 269-280.

3.	Schmiege, Sarah Russo, Nancy Felipe
3.	Depression and Unwanted First Pregnancy: Longitudinal Cohort Study British Medical Journal 331,7528 (December 2005): 1303-1306. Also: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7528/0-a Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group, Ltd. - British Medical Journal Publishing Group Keyword(s): Abortion; CESD (Depression Scale); Health, Mental/Psychological; Income; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Women; Women's Education Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objective: To examine the outcomes of an unwanted first pregnancy (abortion v live delivery) and risk of depression and to explain discrepancies with previous research that used the same dataset. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Setting: Nationally representative sample of US men and women aged 14-24 in 1979. Participants: 1247 women in the US national longitudinal survey of youth who aborted or delivered an unwanted first pregnancy. Main outcome measures: Clinical cut-off and continuous scores on a 1992 measure of the Center for Epidemiological Studies depression scale. Results: Terminating compared with delivering an unwanted first pregnancy was not directly related to risk of clinically significant depression (odds ratio 1.19, 95% confidence interval 0.85 to 1.66). No evidence was found of a relation between pregnancy outcome and depression in analyses of subgroups known to vary in under-reporting of abortion. In analyses of the characteristics of non-respondents, refusal to provide information on abortion did not explain the lack of detecting a relation between abortion and mental health. The abortion group had a significantly higher mean education and income and lower total family size, all of which were associated with a lower risk of depression. Conclusions: Evidence that choosing to terminate rather than deliver an unwanted first pregnancy puts women at higher risk of depression is inconclusive. Discrepancies between current findings and those of previous research using the same dataset primarily reflect differences in coding of a first pregnancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
	Bibliography Citation Schmiege, Sarah and Nancy Felipe Russo. "Depression and Unwanted First Pregnancy: Longitudinal Cohort Study." British Medical Journal 331,7528 (December 2005): 1303-1306.

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