Lucrecia Mena-Meléndez

Bueno, X., Mena-Meléndez, L., Crawford, B. L., Turner, R. C., Lo, W., Jozkowski, K. N. 2025. Assessing the Impact of the Dobbs v. Jackson Decision on Abortion Attitudes by Abortion Identity Labels: A Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Study Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 33 1, 1-33

Bueno, X., Mena-Meléndez, L., Crawford, B. L., Turner, R. C., Lo, W., Jozkowski, K. N. 2025. Mixed Methods Approach to Translation Challenges in Multi-Language Research: Assessing How Spanish-Speaking Adults in the US Interpret the Terms Pro-Vida (Pro-Life) and Pro-Elección (Pro-Choice) International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 37 1,

Hawbaker, A., Turner, R. C., Mena-Meléndez, L., Jozkowski, K. N., Crawford, B. L., Lo, W 2025. A Multi-Method Analysis of the “for any reason” Abortion Attitude Item in the General Social Survey International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 37 3,

Mena-Meléndez, L. 2025. Ethnoracial and Rural-Urban Differences in Female Sterilization in Latin America Frontiers in Global Women’s Health - Contraception and Family Planning, 6 1582729,

Mena-Meléndez, L., Bueno, X., Cary, K. M., Asamoah, N. A., Crawford, B. L., Turner, R. C., Jozkowski, K. N. 2025. English- and Spanish-speaking U.S. Adults’ Perceptions of the Most Common Reasons for Abortion: A Study of Open-Ended Data Before and After Dobbs v. Jackson BMC Reproductive Health, 22 130,

Mena-Meléndez, L., Bueno, X., Lo, W., Buyuker, B. E., Crawford, B. L., Turner, R. C., Jozkowski, K. N. 2025. Exploring the Association Between Measures of Cross-Culturalism and Abortion Attitudes Amongst Latinxs in the U.S. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 47 2, 190-220

Mena-Meléndez, L., Jozkowski, K. N., Crawford, B. L., Turner, R. C., Lo, W. 2025. Examining Public Opinion on Endorsed Punishments for Illegal Abortion by Abortion Legality and Abortion-Restrictive States before Dobbs v. Jackson Criminology & Public Policy, ,

Mosley, E. A., Mena-Meléndez, L., Gould, H., Hasselbacher, L., Madera, M., Moseson, H. Seymour, J. W. 2025. Navigating “Regulatory Fog”: Challenges to Rigorous Abortion Research after the Dobbs v. Jackson Decision Contraception, ,

Crawford, B. L., Jozkowski, K. N., Mena-Meléndez, L., Turner, R. C., Lo, W. 2024. Examining the Relationship Between Perceptions of Pregnancy and Fetal Development Timing and Support for Abortion Bans Journal of Women, Politics & Policy , 45 1, 7–26

Mena-Meléndez, L., Crawford, B. L., Valdez, D., LaRoche, K. J., Turner, R. C., Jozkowski, K. N. 2024. Is News Consumption Related to Abortion Attitudes? An Exploratory Study with a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults Frontiers in Communication—Health Communication, 9 1422318,

Ruiz, Y., Mena-Meléndez, L., Starkey, Z. P., Taylor, Z. E. 2024. Examining Mastery Orientation Among Youth in Latino/a Migrant Farmworker Families Journal of Child and Family Studies, ,

Valdez, D., Mena-Meléndez, L., Crawford, B. L., Jozkowski, K. N. 2024. Abortion Reddit Forums Yield Diverse Dialogues Pertaining to Medical Information-Seeking and Personal Worldviews: A Data Mining and Natural Language Processing Study of the r/abortion and r/abortiondebate Subreddits Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26 e47408,

Crawford, B. L., Jozkowski, K. N., Mena-Meléndez, L., Turner, R. C. 2023. An Exploratory Examination of Attitudes Toward Illegal Abortion in the U.S. through Endorsement of Various Punishments Contraception, 121 109952,

Jozkowski, K. N., Mena-Meléndez, L., Crawford, B. L. Turner, R. C. 2023. Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion.” Psychology of Women Quarterly, 47 4, 443–461

Valdez, D., Mena-Meléndez, L., Crawford, B. L., Arvind, A., Jozkowski, K. N. 2023. Online Social Media Reactions to the Overturn of Roe v. Wade: Public Health Implications and Policy Insights Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 21 , 616–631

Mena-Meléndez, L. 2022. Rural-Urban Differences in Unintended Pregnancies, Contraceptive Nonuse, and Terminated Pregnancies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Women’s Reproductive Health, 9 2,

Mena-Meléndez, L. 2020. Ethnoracial Child Health Inequalities in Latin America: Multilevel Evidence from Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru SSM - Population Health, 12 100673,

Mena-Meléndez, L., Bueno, X., Crawford, B. L., Turner, R. C., Jozkowski, K. N. . Did the Dobbs v. Jackson Decision Influence People’s Attitudes Toward Abortion Legality Across Abortion Circumstances and Weeks’ Gestation? Sexuality Research and Social Policy, ,