Julia R. Steinberg

University of Maryland, College Park

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Nancy E. Adler

University of California, San Francisco

Trine Munk‐Olsen

Aarhus University

Cynthia C. Harper

University of California, San Francisco

Jeanne M. Tschann

University of California, San Francisco

Nancy Felipe Russo

Arizona State University

Yassaman Vafai

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Diana Greene Foster

University of California, San Francisco

Michel Boudreaux

University of Maryland, College Park

Dorothy Furgerson

Planned Parenthood

Kirsten Thompson

Ibis Reproductive Health

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Ibis Reproductive Health

University of Maryland, College Park

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University of Pittsburgh

Johns Hopkins University

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University of California, Berkeley

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The effects of preabortion depressive symptoms on postabortion contraceptive effectiveness level chosen among women seeking abortions

Contraception (2017)

Yassaman Vafai Julia R. Steinberg

10.1016/j.contraception.2017.12.013

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Maternal postpartum depressive symptoms and infant externalizing and internalizing behaviors

Infant Behavior and Development (2016)

Yassaman Vafai Julia R. Steinberg Edmond D. Shenassa

Depression

Longitudinal Study

10.1016/j.infbeh.2015.12.002

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Mental Health Distress and Delayed Contraception Among Older Adolescents and Young Adults

Journal of Women s Health (2024)

Cynthia C. Harper Jennifer Yarger Christina Mangurian Kristine Hopkins Irene Rossetto

Symptoms of mental distress increased sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among older adolescents and young adults. Mental health distress may make it more challenging for young people to seek other needed health care, including contraception. This study explored the association of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress with delays in getting a contraceptive method or prescription.

Depression

Pandemic

10.1089/jwh.2023.0549

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Examining the Association Between Psychological Health and Contraceptive Choice

PsycEXTRA Dataset (2013)

Julia R. Steinberg J. Joseph Speidel Maya Blum Kirsten Thompson Cynthia C. Harper

Association (psychology)

10.1037/e620182013-001

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Current and past depressive symptoms and contraceptive effectiveness level method selected among women seeking reproductive health services

Social Science & Medicine (2018)

Julia R. Steinberg Nancy E. Adler Kirsten Thompson Carolyn Westhoff Cynthia C. Harper

Unintended Pregnancy

Pill

Depression

10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.009

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A comparison of depression and anxiety symptom trajectories between women who had an abortion and women denied one

Psychological Medicine (2015)

Diana Greene Foster Julia R. Steinberg Sarah C. M. Roberts John Neuhaus M. Antonia Biggs

Background This study prospectively assesses the mental health outcomes among women seeking abortions, by comparing women having later abortions with women denied abortions, up to 2 years post-abortion seeking. Method We present the first 2 years of a 5-year telephone interview study that is following 956 women who sought an abortion from 30 facilities throughout the USA. We use adjusted linear mixed-effects regression analyses to assess whether symptoms of depression and anxiety, as measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory-short form and the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders Patient Health Questionnaire, differ over time among women denied an abortion due to advanced gestational age, compared with women who received abortions. Results Baseline predicted mean depressive symptom scores for women denied abortion (3.07) were similar to women receiving an abortion just below the gestational limit (2.86). Depressive symptoms declined over time, with no difference between groups. Initial predicted mean anxiety symptoms were higher among women denied care (2.59) than among women who had an abortion just below the gestational limit (1.91). Anxiety levels in the two groups declined and converged after 1 year. Conclusions Women who received an abortion had similar or lower levels of depression and anxiety than women denied an abortion. Our findings do not support the notion that abortion is a cause of mental health problems.

Depression

10.1017/s0033291714003213

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Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes

Social Science & Medicine (2023)

Taehyun Kim Julia R. Steinberg

Affect

10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115722

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Psychological Aspects of Contraception, Unintended Pregnancy, and Abortion

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2014)

Julia R. Steinberg Lisa R. Rubin

The knowledge of important biopsychosocial factors linking women’s reproductive health and mental health is increasing. This review focuses on psychological aspects of contraception, unintended pregnancy, and abortion because these are common reproductive health experiences in U.S. women’s lives. This review addresses the mental-health antecedents and consequences of these experiences, mostly focusing on depression and depressive symptoms before and after unintended pregnancy and contraception. As mental-health antecedents, depressive symptoms predict contraceptive behaviors that lead to unintended pregnancy, and mental-health disorders have been associated with having subsequent abortions. In examining the mental-health consequences, most sound research does not find abortion or contraceptive use to cause mental-health problems. Consequently, evidence does not support policies based on the notion that abortion harms women’s mental health. Nevertheless, the abortion-care setting may be a place to integrate mental-health services. In contrast, women who have births resulting from unintended pregnancies may be at higher risk of postpartum depression. Social policies (e.g., paid maternity leave, subsidized child care) may protect women from mental-health problems and stress of unplanned children interrupting employment, education, and pre-existing family care responsibilities.

Unintended Pregnancy

10.1177/2372732214549328

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Abortion and Anxiety: What's the Relationship?

PsycEXTRA Dataset (2006)

Julia R. Steinberg

10.1037/e586522007-001

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Later Abortions and Mental Health: Psychological Experiences of Women Having Later Abortions—A Critical Review of Research

Women s Health Issues (2011)

Julia R. Steinberg

Therapeutic abortion

10.1016/j.whi.2011.02.002

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