Waiting time to pregnancy and pregnancy outcome among Danish workers in the textile, clothing, and footwear industries

The relationship between time from planned to achieved pregnancy and pregnancy outcome has been studied in a group of 18,658 workers in the textile, clothing and footwear industries. Information on pregnancy outcome and delay in conception in the period 1979-84 was collected by self administered que...

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Published in:Scandinavian journal of public health 1992-06, Vol.20 (2), p.110-114
Main Authors: Schaumburg, Inger, Boldsen, Jesper L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abortion, Spontaneous - epidemiology
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Diseases of mother, fetus and pregnancy
Educational Status
Female
Fertility
Fertilization
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
Humans
Industry
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medical sciences
Models, Statistical
Occupational Problems
Population
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Outcome
Pregnancy. Fetus. Placenta
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Risk Factors
Science & Technology
Shoes
Smoking - epidemiology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Sweden - epidemiology
Textiles
Time Factors
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Summary:The relationship between time from planned to achieved pregnancy and pregnancy outcome has been studied in a group of 18,658 workers in the textile, clothing and footwear industries. Information on pregnancy outcome and delay in conception in the period 1979-84 was collected by self administered questionnaires in 1985. The response rate was 70.3%. During the study period there had been 5,171 live births and 708 spontaneous abortions. Information on delay in conception was collected in broad categories. The data were analysed by means of a newly developed statistical parametric model in order to collect all possible information from the highly grouped data. Median waiting time before a pregnancy which ended in spontaneous abortion was 1.68 times longer than median waiting time before a pregnancy leading to a live birth. There seems to be a correlation between the length of the waiting time and abortion.
ISSN:0300-8037
1403-4948
1651-1905
DOI:10.1177/140349489202000208