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Testing Effects of Partner Support and Use of Oral Contraception During Relationship Formation on Severity of Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy by Kateřina Roberts; Jan Havlíček; Šárka Kaňková; Kateřina Klapilová; S. Craig Roberts is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

## Background A recent study focusing on dietary predictors of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP) found that women with higher levels of partner support, and those who had used oral contraception (OC) when they met the father, both tended to report less severe NVP compared with previous non-users or those with less supportive partners. We provide a further test of these factors, using a large sample of women from four countries who retrospectively scored their NVP experience during their first pregnancy. ## Methods We recruited women who had at least one child to participate in a retrospective online survey. In total 2321 women completed our questionnaire including items on demographics, hormonal contraception, NVP, and partner support. We used general linear models and path analysis to analyse our data. ## Results Women who had used OC when they met the father of their first child tended to report lower levels of NVP, but the effect size was small and did not survive adding the participant’s country to the model. There was no relationship between NVP and partner support in couples who were still together, but there was a significant effect among those couples that had since se

Author

Kateřina Roberts; Jan Havlíček; Šárka Kaňková; Kateřina Klapilová; S. Craig Roberts

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)