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A new University of Michigan study is the fourth in the country to look at fear of childbirth and how that fear might affect outcomes¹ for mother and baby. However, it is the first qualitative² study and the first to include any people of color or lesbian women.

The study was conducted by Lisa Kane Low, president of the American College of Nurse Midwives, and Lee Roosevelt, a nurse midwife and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Michigan School of Nursing.

"As clinicians, we knew that women really carried away some anxieties and fears as you talk to them in their prenatal visits," Low told us. "So we started to think about, how does this really impact³ the big picture of their experiences and their outcomes? If you put all the individual women's stories together that we were seeing, what is it that we can learn about and know about to be able to do a better job to reduce that fear?"

Low and Roosevelt tell us about their study and what they found in our conversation above.

1 outcomes   

结果( outcome的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The two scenarios provide illustrations of consistent set of outcomes for range of possible policies. 这两个方案说明某一套可能采取的政策将会产生的一系列后果。
• We analyzed all the possible outcomes of your mission, Commander. 我们分析过所有可能的结果，指挥官。

2 qualitative   

adj.性质上的，质的，定性的

参考例句：

• There are qualitative differences in the way children and adults think.孩子和成年人的思维方式有质的不同。
• Arms races have a quantitative and a qualitative aspects.军备竞赛具有数量和质量两个方面。

3 impact   

n.冲击，碰撞；影响；vt.装紧，压紧

参考例句：

• The computer had made a great impact on modern life.计算机对现代生活产生了巨大的影响.
• How will the war impact on such a poet?战争对这样一个诗人会产生什么影响？