Understanding the Experiences of Women Seeking Preconception Health Information
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2025
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Lush, K.R.
Hutchison, A.T.
Pacella-Ince, L.
Hill, B.
Boyle, J.A.
Grieger, J.A.
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Women's Reproductive Health, 2025; 12(1):100-117
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Kimberly R. Lush, Amy T. Hutchison, Leanne Pacella-Ince, Briony Hill, Jacqueline A. Boyle, and Jessica A. Grieger
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Understanding women’s information seeking behaviours before conception is important for the development of interventions to enhance preconception health. This project explored barriers, facilitators, and motivators towards engagement with preconception advice in women undergoing assisted reproductive technology, across BMI classifications. Twenty interviews were conducted with women attending the fertility clinic, Repromed, in South Australia. Barriers to behaviour change included challenges finding reputable information, lack of social and health provider support, and desire for secrecy. Women reported a preference for receiving health information from the internet, social media, complementary and allied health professionals. Women living with overweight reported similar behaviours and interactions.
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© 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.