DISCUSSION
Consistent with the adolescent pregnancy literature, we found significant associations between race/ethnicity, health insurance status, frequency of attendance at religious services locus of control regarding pregnancy prevention, and certain personal attitudes and beliefs and perceived likelihood of an unintended pregnancy among young adults (aged 18-29 years). Although some of our findings on risk and protective factors among young adults were consistent with those previously identified in the literature for adolescent pregnancy, others were divergent. We hypothesized an association between both younger age and minority race/ethnicity and perceived likelihood of unintended pregnancy. In contrast to previous literature, we did not observe an association between at least some pregnancy likelihood and age, and the association with race/ethnicity was counter to what we expected. This suggests that some characteristics of young adults who believe that they may experience a pregnancy in the next 12 months differ from those of adolescents who experienced an unplanned pregnancy. This could be also attributed to differences in unintended pregnancy measures.