MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
John W. Ayers, PhD, MA
Altman Clinical Translational Research Institute
University of California
San Diego, La Jolla
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are frequently at the center of news
and policy debates, yet little data exists about where they operate or
what they actually do. To address this gap, we developed
ChoiceWatch.org,
a tool that systematically collected and analyzed over 470,000 webpages from CPC websites.
In our study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, we used
ChoiceWatch.org,
to answer fundamental questions, such as how many crisis pregnancy centers operate in the U.S.,
where they are located, and what services they advertise.
