Assessing United States Military Veterans’ Fertility Intentions Before and After Military Service Using a Cognitive-Social Model
Our qualitative findings can help support Veterans Health Administration (VHA)'s efforts to anticipate reproductive healthcare services needed for both men and women. A better understanding of the contextual factors impacting post-military fertility intentions can support VHA's Whole Health approach-understanding what matters to the person, not what's the matter with the person-and potentially improve clinician-veteran communication and inform reproductive healthcare policy development.
Authors
- Anne G. Sadler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5020-3752)
- Ana‐Monica Racila (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5751-5422)
- Monica Paez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7339-3886)
- Ginny L. Ryan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2819-3249)
- Kenda Stewart Steffensmeier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0518-0461)
- Emily E. Chasco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9542-2454)
- Aaron T. Seaman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1680-1334)
- Michelle A. Mengeling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0337-9215)
Institutions
- University of Iowa (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- VA Puget Sound Health Care System (US)
- Iowa City VA Health Care System (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Military Medicine
- Published
- 2025-11-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usaf547
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.70