Abstract
We examined male partners' influence on the decision to seek medical help for infertility using the National Study of Fertility Barriers. Building upon an existing help-seeking framework, we incorporated characteristics of both partners from 219 heterosexual couples who had ever perceived a fertility problem. In logistic regression analyses, we found an association between couple-level attitudes and medical help-seeking even when other predisposing and enabling conditions existed. Overall, the findings highlight that both partners contribute to the infertility help-seeking process, and that different factors may play a role in different stages of help-seeking. Studies of infertility help-seeking need to be more inclusive of the context that these decisions are embedded within to better understand service use.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 431-444 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Family Relations |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2009 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Education
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)