检查口服避孕药的使用与日常生活中的注意力参与之间的关系
Alyssa C Smith1, Jeremy Marty-Dugas2, Daniel Smilek1
1Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Frontiers in human neuroscience
|June 16, 2023
概括
妇女使用口服避孕药 (OC) 对日常注意力的影响很小. 研究发现,OC使用者与非使用者之间心灵漂泊,注意力缺失或错误没有显著差异.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 内分泌学 在内分泌学.
背景情况:
- 口服避孕药 (OCs) 含有合成雌激醇和孕激素,它们可能通过大脑受体相互作用影响认知功能.
- 以前的研究表明,荷尔蒙波动和认知表现之间存在潜在联系,需要进一步研究OC对注意力的影响.
研究的目的:
- 调查口服避孕药的使用与本科生女性日常注意力的自我报告措施之间的关系.
- 为了比较与注意力相关的特征,包括心灵漫游,注意力缺失和错误,口服避孕药使用者和自然骑自行车的女性之间.
主要方法:
- 两项研究对大批本科生进行了研究,对参与者进行了分类,分为口服避孕药 (OC) 使用者和非使用者 (自然循环).
- 在特征层面的测量中,评估了思维 (自发和故意的),与注意力相关的错误和注意力缺失.
- 统计分析,包括控制抑郁症和学期的回归模型,用于评估群体差异.
主要成果:
- 研究1表明,与非使用者相比,OC使用者报告的自发和故意的思维游荡显著减少,注意力缺陷或错误没有群体差异.
- 第二项研究发现,在所有注意力指标上,OC用户与非用户之间没有显著差异.
- 回归分析显示,在控制共变量时,OC使用对注意力测量有小而不可靠的影响.
结论:
- 这些发现提供了有限的证据,证明口服避孕药的使用与日常注意力参与的差异之间存在实质性关系.
- 观察到的效应,特别是第1项研究中的思维流浪差异,在各项研究中不一致,规模较小.
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