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Efectos de la reproducción médica asistida en la salud mental
En Europa, cada vez más de bebés son concebidos mediante reproducción médica asistida (RMA, o MAR por sus siglas en inglés). Los estudios demuestran que el uso de la RMA, que coincide con el retraso de la maternidad y unos recursos socioeconómicos elevados, también está cambiando la forma de concebir la paternidad. En el proyecto FaMART, financiado con fondos europeos, se analizará cómo cambia la salud mental de los adultos antes, durante y después de las concepciones no deseadas, las deseadas/naturales y las naturales/asistidas. Los hallazgos revelarán los efectos de los planes de maternidad y el modo de concepción en los países en los que los nacimientos no planificados son menos frecuentes y más comunes, y en los que la mayoría de los tratamientos de RMA se financian de forma pública y privada.
Objetivo
In In the last decades, low fertility rates have increasingly been a policy and societal concern. Fertility rates have been coupled to the development of contraceptive and reproductive technologies, which dramatically affect the transition to parenthood. In Western societies, where contraceptive use is widespread, unintended births are now uncommon events associated with early motherhood, family instability and low socioeconomic status. Concomitantly, the utilization of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR), which often coincides with delays in childbearing and high socioeconomic resources, has rapidly increased and has revolutionized the way we think about parenthood. Despite growing interest from scholars and policymakers in fertility and MAR, there remains a lack of research on how fertility intentions and the mode of conception affect couples’ mental health longitudinally. By exploiting longitudinal survey data, I will be able, for the first time, to analyse how adults’ mental health changes before, during and after unintended, intended/natural and natural/medically assisted conceptions. Advanced statistical techniques (e.g. ‘distributed’ fixed effects models) will be used to remove the bias introduced by unobserved confounding factors. By examining Swedish Population register data, I will investigate how mental health changes before and after treatment among single women and (both heterosexual and lesbian) couples. The project, which will be hosted at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany), integrates four research areas (sociology, demography, epidemiology and psychology) to produce novel and cutting-edge research on fertility. The aim is to shed light on the effects of fertility intentions and the mode of conception in countries where unplanned births are less common (Germany and Switzerland) and more common (the UK and the US), and where the majority of MAR treatments are funded publicly (the Sweden and Germany) and and privately (U.K.).
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
80539 Munchen
Alemania