Neither race nor ethnicity is significantly associated with unintended pregnancy, a recent study found. The cross-sectional study included 161 English- or Spanish-speaking women aged 16 to 44 years with pregnancies <24 weeks’ gestation and recruited between June 2014 and June 2015. Participants completed self-assessments of race, ethnicity, and multi-dimensional measures of pregnancy context, including timing, intention, wantedness, desirability, happiness, and planning. Researchers found:

• Neither race nor ethnicity is significantly associated with unintended pregnancy.

• Black non-Hispanic women were more likely to report happiness about new pregnancies than white non-Hispanic women.
• Evaluation of multi-dimensional pregnancy contexts assessed antenatally may capture the experiences of women more accurately, especially black and Hispanic women.