Table 4.
Full Models Predicting Pregnancy Risk Misperceptions, Pregnancy Fatalism, and Beliefs about Contraception Side Effects
| Model 1. Number of Inaccurate Beliefs about Getting Pregnant (Poisson regression) | Model 2. Believe that BC doesn't matter when it's “your time” to get pregnant, you will (Logistic regression) | Side Effects (Logistic regression) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 4. Reduced sexual desire | Model 5. Severe mood swings | Model 6. Serious health problems, like cancer | ||||
| β | se | exp β | exp β | exp β | exp β | |
| Race-ethnicity | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Non-Hispanic black | -0.21 | 0.14 | 1.45 | 1.84* | 1.16 | 1.78* |
| Foreign-born Hispanic | 0.28 | 0.17 | 1.97 | 0.53 | 0.99 | 1.36 |
| Native-born Hispanic | -0.04 | 0.15 | 1.19 | 1.16 | 1.23 | 0.94 |
| Asian/other | -0.00 | 0.15 | 1.73 | 1.17 | 1.37 | 1.12 |
| Age | ||||||
| 18-19 | -0.01 | 0.11 | 1.67* | 1.05 | 0.89 | 1.28 |
| 20-24 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 25-29 | -0.10 | 0.14 | 1.-0 | 1.25 | 0.75 | 0.64 |
| Female | -0.38 | 0.12** | 1.08 | 1.28 | 0.93 | 1.39 |
| Socioeconomic characteristics | ||||||
| Education | ||||||
| Less than high school | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.94 | 2.05¥ | 1.22 | 1.24 |
| High school/GED | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Some college | -0.30 | 0.12* | 0.76 | 0.86 | 0.95 | 1.04 |
| College or more | -0.20 | 0.19 | 0.59 | 0.96 | 0.94 | 1.09 |
| Employment & enrollment | ||||||
| Not working or in school | 0.07 | 0.19 | 1.15 | 1.01 | 1.05 | 0.54 |
| In school | 0.32 | 0.12** | 1.18 | 0.93 | 0.72 | 0.71 |
| Working and in school | 0.11 | 0.14 | 1.00 | 0.98 | 1.03 | 1.01 |
| Working | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Insurance | ||||||
| Medicaid | 0.24 | 0.16 | 1.53 | 0.81 | 1.39 | 1.05 |
| Private insurance | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Uninsured | 0.41 | 0.11*** | 1.00 | 1.43 | 1.46 | 1.55 |
| Sexual/family beliefs and behaviors | ||||||
| Age at first sex | ||||||
| Before 15 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.94** | 1.69 | 1.08 | 1.36 |
| 15-17 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 18 or later | 0.22 | 0.13 | 1.09 | 0.80 | 0.92 | 1.06 |
| Never had sex | -0.11 | 0.17 | 0.90 | 2.29* | 0.54* | 1.01 |
| Currently in a sexual relationship | -0.02 | 0.11 | 1.08 | 1.38 | 0.95 | 0.95 |
| Ever been pregnant | -0.11 | 0.14 | 1.24 | 0.68 | 0.87 | 0.65 |
| Family does not approve of nonmarital childbearing | -0.17 | 0.09 | 1.11 | 1.33 | 0.98 | 0.89 |
| Friends think birth control is important | 0.06 | 0.12 | 0.64* | 0.98 | 0.83 | 1.12 |
| Friends have had unplanned pregnancies | -0.11 | 0.10 | 0.86 | 0.83 | 0.67* | 0.73 |
| Religiosity | ||||||
| Never attends services | 0.21 | 0.11¥ | 0.84 | 1.32 | 0.97 | 1.25 |
| Attends monthly/few times a month | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Attends weekly or more | 0.08 | 0.11 | 1.78** | 1.42 | 1.30 | 1.05 |
| Sources of information | ||||||
| Had sex education class | -0.14 | 0.11 | 0.77 | 0.68 | 0.90 | 1.02 |
| Has seen a doctor for sexual health reasons | -0.14 | 0.12 | 1.11 | 1.03 | 0.60* | 0.74 |
| Most trusted source not a health care professional | 0.25 | 0.09** | 1.20 | 0.95 | 1.12 | 1.03 |
| Gets most information from peers/siblings/partner | 0.21 | 0.10* | 1.10 | 1.11 | 1.26 | 0.75 |
| Constant | -0.40 | 0.22 | 0.62 | 0.09*** | 1.67 | 0.24** |
| N | 1441 | |||||
¥
p≤.06
*
p≤.05
**
p≤.01
***
p≤.001