TY - JOUR
T1 - Adolescent Reproductive Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs and Future Fatherhood
AU - Garfield, Craig F.
AU - Duncan, Greg
AU - Peters, Sarah
AU - Rutsohn, Joshua
AU - McDade, Thomas W.
AU - Adam, Emma K.
AU - Coley, Rebekah Levine
AU - Chase-Lansdale, Patricia Lindsay
N1 - Funding Information:
Conflicts of Interest: C.F.G. was partially supported by grant K23HD060664 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - Purpose: With a growing focus on the importance of men's reproductive health, including preconception health, the ways in which young men's knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) predict their reproductive paths are understudied. To determine if reproductive KAB predicts fatherhood status, timing and residency (living with child or not). Methods: Reproductive KAB and fatherhood outcomes were analyzed from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a 20-year, nationally representative study of individuals from adolescence into adulthood. Four measures of reproductive KAB were assessed during adolescence in waves I and II. A generalized linear latent and mixed model predicted future fatherhood status (nonfather, resident/nonresident father, adolescent father) and timing while controlling for other socio-demographic variables. Results: Of the 10,253 men, 3,425 were fathers (686 nonresident/2,739 resident) by wave IV. Higher risky sexual behavior scores significantly increased the odds of becoming nonresident father (odds ratio [OR], 1.30; p <.0001), resident father (OR, 1.07; p =.007), and adolescent father (OR, 1.71; p <.0001); higher pregnancy attitudes scores significantly increased the odds of becoming a nonresident father (OR, 1.20; p <.0001) and resident father (OR, 1.11; p <.0001); higher birth control self-efficacy scores significantly decreased the odds of becoming a nonresident father (OR,.72; p <.0001) and adolescent father (OR,.56; p =.01). Conclusions Young men's KAB in adolescence predicts their future fatherhood and residency status. Strategies that address adolescent males' reproductive KAB are needed in the prevention of unintended reproductive consequences such as early and nonresident fatherhood.
AB - Purpose: With a growing focus on the importance of men's reproductive health, including preconception health, the ways in which young men's knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) predict their reproductive paths are understudied. To determine if reproductive KAB predicts fatherhood status, timing and residency (living with child or not). Methods: Reproductive KAB and fatherhood outcomes were analyzed from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a 20-year, nationally representative study of individuals from adolescence into adulthood. Four measures of reproductive KAB were assessed during adolescence in waves I and II. A generalized linear latent and mixed model predicted future fatherhood status (nonfather, resident/nonresident father, adolescent father) and timing while controlling for other socio-demographic variables. Results: Of the 10,253 men, 3,425 were fathers (686 nonresident/2,739 resident) by wave IV. Higher risky sexual behavior scores significantly increased the odds of becoming nonresident father (odds ratio [OR], 1.30; p <.0001), resident father (OR, 1.07; p =.007), and adolescent father (OR, 1.71; p <.0001); higher pregnancy attitudes scores significantly increased the odds of becoming a nonresident father (OR, 1.20; p <.0001) and resident father (OR, 1.11; p <.0001); higher birth control self-efficacy scores significantly decreased the odds of becoming a nonresident father (OR,.72; p <.0001) and adolescent father (OR,.56; p =.01). Conclusions Young men's KAB in adolescence predicts their future fatherhood and residency status. Strategies that address adolescent males' reproductive KAB are needed in the prevention of unintended reproductive consequences such as early and nonresident fatherhood.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Fatherhood
KW - Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs
KW - Preconception health
KW - Reproductive health
KW - Young men's health
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.12.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.12.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 26896211
AN - SCOPUS:84958212311
VL - 58
SP - 497
EP - 503
JO - Journal of Adolescent Health
JF - Journal of Adolescent Health
SN - 1054-139X
IS - 5
ER -