Bojan Luc Nys, Janie Brisson, Walter Schaeken
Find extra options or reason badly: An investigation of children's reasoning with incompatibility statements
Journal of experimental child psychology
past studies highincome countries shown association unintended unwanted mistimed pregnancy child development nationallevel studies lowandmiddleincome countries conducted moreover extant studies often adjust potential mediators underestimating average population effect aimed estimate effect unintended pregnancy early childhood development ecuadorian children aged 3 5 participating national health nutrition survey 2018 used designbased doubly robust estimate first used propensity score matching 11 identify subsample equally likely come desired vs unintended pregnancy based geographic area household income paternal intendedness mothers current marital status age ethnicity educational level depressive symptoms childs gender age used logistic regression model explore relation maternal pregnancy intentions adequate development defined early childhood development index ecdi exempt review institutional review board secondary research conducted accord prevailing ethical principles among 1694 observations representing 162285 ecuadorian children unintended pregnancy associated inadequate development odds ratio 156 95 confidence interval 106 229 adjusting relevant confounders unintended pregnancy also negatively associated four ecdi domains socioemotional development affected doubly robust design found evidence relation maternal perception pregnancy early child development addressing relation achieve reproductive justice entails considering wide spectrum population health legal interventions allow adequate access education contraception safe abortion moreover pre postnatal checkups could screen unintended pregnancy provide support accordingly