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This study examined the psychosocial correlates and prespecified indirect statistical pathways associated with VTE-preventive practices among pregnant and postpartum women in China.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted from January to October 2023 among 1,384 pregnant and postpartum women at a tertiary women\u2019s and children\u2019s hospital in Chengdu, China. Participants completed questionnaires assessing venous thromboembolism knowledge, attitudes, preventive practices, self-efficacy, family function, and social support. A latent-variable structural equation modeling, guided primarily by the Information\u2013Motivation\u2013Behavioral Skills (IMB) model, was estimated using 5,000 bootstrap resamples. Multigroup and covariate-adjusted sensitivity analyses were conducted to assess robustness.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Attitude was the strongest correlate of preventive practices (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.522, 95% CI 0.463\u202f~\u202f0.574). Knowledge (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.236, 95% CI 0.166\u202f~\u202f0.303), family function (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.162, 95% CI 0.091\u202f~\u202f0.232), and social support (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.185, 95% CI 0.105\u202f~\u202f0.258) were positively associated with attitude. The standardized indirect association of knowledge with practice through attitude was\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.123; the corresponding unstandardized estimate was\n                      <jats:italic>B<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.481. Self-efficacy had a small association with practice (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.065). The model explained 16.4% of the variance in attitude, 3.9% in self-efficacy, and 29.0% in practice. Equality constraints on the structural paths did not worsen model fit between pregnant and postpartum participants (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.195), and covariate-adjusted estimates were similar.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Attitude was the strongest psychosocial correlate of self-reported VTE-preventive practices in this sample. Knowledge, family function, and social support showed smaller indirect statistical associations through attitude. These cross-sectional findings do not establish temporal or causal mediation, but they support prospective evaluation of culturally sensitive, attitude-focused educational interventions that also involve family and social support.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpubh.2026.1903858","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,12]],"date-time":"2026-08-12T05:55:00Z","timestamp":1786514100000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Psychosocial correlates of venous thromboembolism-preventive practices among pregnant and postpartum women in China: a cross-sectional structural equation modeling study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Sixu","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine and Healthcare, Farabi University","place":["Almaty, Kazakhstan"]},{"name":"YAAN People\u2019s Hospital","place":["Yaan, 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