生育间隔和父母的身体和心理健康:使用个人和兄弟姐妹固定的效应进行分析
Kieron Barclay1, Martin Kolk2, Øystein Kravdal3
1Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden; Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
Demography
|March 8, 2024
概括
生育间隔对父母健康的影响最小. 先进的统计方法显示,分娩间较短或较长的间隔对父母的身体和精神健康的影响小到微不足道.
科学领域:
- 生殖健康 生殖健康
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 家庭研究 家庭研究
背景情况:
- 广泛的研究将分娩间隔与父母健康联系起来,主要使用观察设计.
- 之前的研究通常只针对可观察到的混因素进行调整,这可能会限制因果推断.
- 生育间隔对与怀孕无关的父母健康的影响仍然不完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 使用可靠的统计方法调查分娩间隔和父母健康结果之间的关联.
- 检查母亲和父亲的短期,中期和长期全科医生咨询情况.
- 区分分娩间隔的影响与稳定的个人和家庭背景特征.
主要方法:
- 利用挪威登记册数据进行大规模研究.
- 雇佣个人固定效应模型用于短期结果,以控制时间不变的父母特征.
- 应用了兄弟姐妹固定效应模型,用于中长期结果,以解释共同的家庭背景.
主要成果:
- 观察分析反映了先前的文献,将极端的分娩间隔与较差的健康状况联系起来.
- 个别的固定效应模型表明,短分娩间隔对母亲心理健康的短期负面影响很小.
- 在所有时间范围内,出生间隔对身体健康的适度影响的证据是模两可的.
结论:
- 出生间隔行为似乎对非怀孕相关的父母健康有很小或微不足道的影响.
- 先进的固定效应建模表明,混可能解释了一些先前观察到的关联.
- 这些发现强调了严格的方法的重要性,以了解计划生育和父母健康之间的复杂关系.
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