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Communication Style: a clue to unplanned pregnancy
This investigation compared the communication patterns of women who had never been pregnant with those of women who had had two or more unplanned pregnancies. A six-part questionnaire assessing communication skills, social orientation and involvement, self-disclosure, physical accessibility and verbal defensiveness was administered to fifty-six paid subjects from family planning clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area. Significant differences in communication skills, depth of self-disclosure, physical accessibility, and verbal defensiveness were found. The study suggests that the communicative inadequacies in the women with multiple unplanned pregnancies may be critical factors in contraceptive failure.
This investigation compared the communication patterns of women who had never been pregnant with those of women who had had two or more unplanned pregnancies. A six-part questionnaire assessing communication skills, social orientation and involvement, self-disclosure, physical accessibility and verbal defensiveness was administered to fifty-six paid subjects from family planning clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area. Significant differences in communication skills, depth of self-disclosure, physical accessibility, and verbal defensiveness were found. The study suggests that the communicative inadequacies in the women with multiple unplanned pregnancies may be critical factors in contraceptive failure.