Is Ecological Anxiety Due to Climate Change Associated With the Fertility Preferences of Women?

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2024-12-11 DOI:10.1111/jep.14265

Asibe Özkan, Merve Kolcu, Aydan Yilmaz, Gonca Akbaş

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Abstract

Background

Eco-anxiety caused by climate change, which is a significant public health problem, has negative effects on sexual and reproductive health, and these effects are expected to increase continuously. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between eco-anxiety caused by climate change and the fertility preferences of women.

Methods

This descriptive study was conducted between June and August 2024 with 491 women at the ages of 18 to 49 who were registered at a family health center. A personal information form, the Attitudes toward Fertility and Childbearing Scale, and the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale were used to collect data.

Results

The mean total AFCS score of the participants was 66.1 ± 14.2, while their mean total HEAS score was 27.1 ± 7.0. There was a weak negative correlation between the AFCS scores and HEAS scores of the participants (r = −0.124, p = 0.006).

Conclusion

As the ecological anxiety levels of women increased, their attitudes toward childbearing became more negative.

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气候变化引起的生态焦虑是否与女性的生育偏好有关？

背景：气候变化引起的生态焦虑是一个重大的公共卫生问题，对性健康和生殖健康产生负面影响，并且这些影响预计将持续增加。本研究旨在探讨气候变迁引起的生态焦虑与女性生育偏好之间的关系。方法：本描述性研究于2024年6月至8月对在家庭保健中心登记的491名年龄在18至49岁之间的妇女进行。使用个人信息表、生育态度量表和霍格生态焦虑量表收集数据。结果：受试者AFCS总分平均为66.1±14.2分，HEAS总分平均为27.1±7.0分。受试者的AFCS评分与HEAS评分呈弱负相关（r = -0.124, p = 0.006）。结论：女性生态焦虑水平越高，生育态度越消极。

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

4.20%

发文量

143

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.