Infertility : Testing a Helpseeking Model  

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White, Lynn ; McQuillan, Julia ; Greil, Arthur L. ; Johnson, David R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 4 (Feb. 2006), page 1031-1041.
Topik: INFERTILITY; infertility; helpseeking; USA

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This paper uses data from a study of 196 infertile women from the midwestern US to examine a general theory of helpseeking bahvior applied to infertility. All of these women reprot meeting the medical difinition of infertily, 12 months or more of regular intercourse without conception, at some point in their lives. Only 35 percent of this sample of infertile women identified themselves as having had fertility problems and only 40 percent had sought medical treatment. Drawing on prior theories of helpseeking, we examine the effects of symptom salience, life course cues, attitudes, predisposing factors, and enabling conditions on helpseeking. We posit a model in which a cognitive dimension (perceived infertility) mediates between these predictors and medical helpseeking. Symptom salience (experienced infertility whicle actively trying to get pregnant), low parity, and poor subjective health are significantly related to perceived infertility, which is in turn significantly associated with helpseeking for infertility. Supporting the conclusion that the cognitive dimension of identifying oneself as infertile is critical to helpseeking, the relationship of symptom salience to helpseeking is partially mediated by perceived provlems. Internal health locus of control is associated with lower odds of helpseeking but not ot perceived infertility.

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