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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trauma Violence Abuse. 2016 Aug 16;19(4):371–390. doi: 10.1177/1524838016663935

Table 1.

Sample, Quality, and Prevalence of Types of Reproductive Coercion in Quantitative Studies

First Author
(year)
Sample, Setting and
Design
Race/Ethnicity and SES
of Sample (if noted)
Subgroup(s) Prevalence Quality
Rating

Reproductive
Coercion
Pregnancy
Coercion
Birth
Control
Sabotage
Abortion
Coercion
Finer (2005) 1,209 abortion patients 31% Black Partner wanting abortion was most important reason for abortion 0.5% QI
11 locations in the United States 19% Hispanic remainder not specified
Mixed methods SES: 60% low-income
Gee (2009) 1,463 women over age 18 57% White Partner makes it difficult to use birth control (past 4 months): QII
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 23% Black
Cross-sectional survey 15% Other
  No IPV 4.6%
[Note: this data was not reported, but was calculated from other data provided in the study]   Past year IPV 13.5%
  Did not use birth control because partner did not want to/wanted participant to get pregnant: 6.1%
  No IPV 16.7%
  Past year IPV
Miller (2010) 1,278 women ages 16–29 seeking care in 5 family planning clinics California Cross-sectional survey 29.9% Hispanic Overall 19.1% 15% QI
28.1% Black
22.4% White   Hispanic 16.8% 11.5%
12.5% Asian/other   Black 25.9% 27.0%
7.1% multiracial   White 13.3% 7.3%
  Asian/Other 15.0% 9.4%
  Multiracial 27.5% 15.4%
Silverman (2010) 1,318 men ages 18–35 who had ever had sex Boston, Massachusetts 48.5% Black Partner sought to compel abortion 4.1% QII
31.5% Hispanic
11.9% Other Partner sought to prevent abortion 8%
Cross-sectional survey 8.1% White
Miller (2011) 906 women ages 16–29 years 29.7% Hispanic Past 3 months at baseline: QI
27.9% Black Intervention group 9.3%, 10.7%
Northern California 22.9% White Control group 7.9% 7.0%
Cluster randomized control trial 12.9% Asian/Pacific Islander/other
6.7% multiracial
Silverman (2011) 356 women aged 14–20 who had ever had sex 40% White Coerced into sex without a condom 20% QI
34% Hispanic
Boston, Massachusetts 20% Black
Cross-sectional survey 6% other
Foster (2012) 5,109 women who sought abortions at one clinic 56.1% White/Hispanic Pushed to have an abortion against their wishes 2% QI
38.8% Black
United States 2.6% mixed/other
Cross-sectional survey 1.8% missing
0.7% Asian
Chibber (2014) 954 pregnant women, 15 years or older, meeting criteria for the parent study (the Turnaway Study) 37% White Coerced to have abortion by partner 0.1% QI
29% Black
21% Hispanic
13% other
Multiple locations in the United States SES: at least 68% low-income
Mixed methods
Clark (2014) 641 women ages 18–44, literate 41.8% Latina Overall 16% QI
27% White   Latina1 5.7%
Urban location 16.4% Black   Black 3.2%
Cross-sectional survey 8.7% other   White 3%
6.1% >1 race   Other 1.7%
  >1 race 1.7%
SES: 79% low-income
Dick (2014) 1,008 youth ages 14–18 (RC results from 769 female participants only) 36.5% Hispanic No cyber dating abuse 4% QI
27.1% Black Low cyber dating abuse 11.6%
15.5% Asian High cyber dating abuse 21.6%
Northern California 10.7% Multiracial
Cross-sectional survey 5.2% White
5.1% Native Amer./
Pacific Islander
Kazmerski (2014) 1,262 women ages 16–29 years seeking care in 5 family planning clinics 30% Hispanic Past 3 months 13% QI
27.9% Black
22.6% White
Northern California 8.5% multiracial/other
Cross-sectional survey 5.7% Native
Amer./Pacific Isl./Alaskan
Native/Native Hawaiian
5.4% Asian
McCauley (2014) 564 girls ages 14–19 seeking services at school-based health clinics, who completed questions on sexual minority status 36.9% Hispanic Overall 12.4% QI
29.1% Black
15.6% Asian Sexual minority group females 12.3%
8.9% multiracial
5% White
Northern California 4.6% Amer. Indian/
Cross-sectional survey Pacific Islander
Miller (2014) 3539 women aged 16–29 seeking care in 24 rural and urban family planning clinics 80.3% White Past 3 months 5% 1.7% QI
13.3% Black
2.9% multiracial Past 3 months by race:
1.6% Hispanic
Pennsylvania 1.6% Asian/other   White 3.7%
Cross-sectional survey   Black 12.5%
  Multiracial 5.9%
  Hispanic 8.8%
  Asian/Other 7.3%
Past 3 months:
  Partner removing condom during sex 1.6%
  Poking holes in condoms 0.2%
  Breaking condoms 0.4%
  Preventing access to birth control 0.4%
  Coerced into sex without a condom 0.5%
McCauley (2015) 3,455 women aged 16–29 years seeking care at family planning clinics, whose partners were equally men and women, or mostly or exclusively men 80.6% White Past 3 months 5.1% QI
13.1% Black
2.9% Multiracial   Women who have sex with women and men 9.3%
1.6% Other
1.5% Hispanic/Latina   Women who have sex with men 4.6%
Western Pennsylvania
Cross-sectional survey
Patel (2015) 1,388 non-pregnant women age 16–40 21.3% White 1% QI
35.2% Black
Southeast Texas 22.9% Hispanic
Cross-sectional survey Remainder not specified
SES: 80% low-income
Sutherland (2015) 972 women aged 18–25, enrolled at a large public university; sexually active 75.3% White 8% 6.8% 3.9% QI
10.3% Hispanic
9.6% Asian White 6.6%
Northeast United States 4.8% Black Hispanic 16.7%
Cross-sectional survey Asian 6.7%
Black 15.6%

NOTE: SES = socioeconomic status, RC = reproductive coercion

Quality ratings for cross-sectional and mixed-methods studies are as follows (Cesario et al., 2002):

QI: Total score of 22.5–30 indicates that 75% to 100% of the total criteria were met.

QII: Total score of 15–22.4 indicates that 50% to 74% of the total criteria were met.

QIII: Total score of less than 15 indicates that less than 50% of the total criteria were met.

Quality ratings for randomized control studies are as follows (Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP), n.d.):
  1. STRONG (no WEAK ratings)
  2. MODERATE (one WEAK rating)
  3. WEAK (two or more WEAK ratings)
1

Racial and ethnic prevalence was calculated from data provided.