怀孕:自我测试作为监视和护理,试图怀孕社区
Rahi Patel1, Adrienne E Strong2
1UMass T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Medical anthropology
|March 31, 2025
概括
试图怀孕的个人 (TTC) 使用循环跟踪应用程序,将自我测试视为监控护理. 这提供了社区和控制,专注于未来的怀孕而不是当前的健康状况.
科学领域:
- 健康和疾病的社会学
- 数字卫生技术数字卫生技术
- 生殖健康研究 生殖健康研究
背景情况:
- 越来越多地使用数字健康技术和应用程序来跟踪试图怀孕 (TTC) 的人的月经周期.
- 自我测试的现象作为监测生育和怀孕的方法.
- 管理生育和受孕过程的心理社会方面.
研究的目的:
- 在TTC社区中探索自我测试的概念,作为一种监视护理形式.
- 了解TTC个体如何感知和利用这些技术来管理生育能力.
- 在生育自我监测的背景下分析社区和机构的作用.
主要方法:
- 来自试图怀孕的个人匿名在线论坛帖子的定性分析.
- 检查与生育跟踪和自我测试相关的用户生成内容.
- 专题分析以识别感知和经验中的模式.
主要成果:
- 自我测试被定义为"监视护理",它超越了当前的健康状况,涵盖了未来的怀孕和孩子的福祉.
- 这些做法为TTC个体提供了社区感,代理权和对不可预测的身体过程的控制.
- 焦点从个人当前健康转移到期望未来怀孕的护理.
结论:
- 通过数字卫生工具进行监视护理,通过培养社区和控制感,赋予TTC个体权力.
- 该实践强调了对生育管理的积极方法,优先考虑未来的生殖结果.
- 了解这些以用户为导向的实践对于开发支持性数字健康干预措施至关重要.
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