Pregnancy in Adolescence - Statistics & numerical data
Research News and Information

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Motivational intervention to reduce rapid subsequent births to adolescent mothers: a community-based randomized trial.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: One-quarter of adolescent mothers bear another child within 2 years, compounding their risk of poorer medical, educational, economic, and parenting outcomes. Most efforts to prevent rapid subsequent birth to teenagers have been unsuccessful ... Read more...

Global lessons on healthy adolescent sexual development.

30 Jul 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Examining global trends of adolescent sexual behavior is essential to inform clinical practice as well as for developing interventions and educational strategies to ensure healthy sexual development in young people. RECENT ... Read more...

Emergency contraceptive use as a marker of future risky sex, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infection.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to examine whether emergency contraceptive use predicts future sex at risk for pregnancy, pregnancy, or sexually transmitted infection among young women. STUDY DESIGN: A secondary analysis of control group ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pregnancy in Adolescence - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Motivational intervention to reduce rapid subsequent births to adolescent mothers: a community-based randomized trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Global lessons on healthy adolescent sexual development. 30 Jul 2009
• Emergency contraceptive use as a marker of future risky sex, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infection. 30 Jul 2009
• Impact of change in maternal age composition on the incidence of Caesarean section and low birth weight: analysis of delivery records at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania, 1999-2005. 19 Jul 2009
• Sexual and reproductive health of persons aged 10-24 years - United States, 2002-2007. 15 Jul 2009
• Changing behavioral risk for pregnancy among high school students in the United States, 1991-2007. 29 Jun 2009
• What is to be done about the rise in teen childbearing? 29 Jun 2009
• Women's fertility and mortality in late mid life: A comparison of three contemporary populations. 29 Jun 2009
• On hand, in school. 29 Jun 2009
• Second births to teenage mothers: risk factors for low birth weight and preterm birth. 30 May 2009
• Intimate partner violence among economically disadvantaged young adult women: associations with adolescent risk-taking and pregnancy experiences. 30 May 2009
• Pregnancy rates among juvenile justice girls in two randomized controlled trials of multidimensional treatment foster care. 30 May 2009
• Are female orphans at risk for early marriage, early sexual debut, and teen pregnancy? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa. 30 May 2009
• Screening for postpartum depression at well-child visits: is once enough during the first 6 months of life? 30 May 2009
• Accounting for regression-to-the-mean in tests for recent changes in institutional performance: analysis and power. 28 May 2009
• Sexual violence and reproductive health outcomes among South African female youths: a contextual analysis. 14 Apr 2009
• Brief report: Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in pregnant teenagers. 3 Apr 2009
• Violence exposure and the association between young African American mothers' discipline and child problem behavior. 26 Mar 2009
• Brief report: A socio-demographic profile of multiparous teenage mothers. Mar 2009
• Update in adolescent contraception. 27 Feb 2009

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Pregnancy in Adolescence'

Definition: Pregnancy in human adolescent females under the age of 19.

Descriptor UI: D011253

Alternative terms: Pregnancy in Adolescence; Adolescence, Pregnancy in; Teen Pregnancy; Pregnancies, Teen; Pregnancy, Teen; Teen Pregnancies; Adolescent Pregnancy; Adolescent Pregnancies; Pregnancies, Adolescent; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Pregnancy, Teenage; Pregnancies, Teenage; Teenage Pregnancies; Teenage Pregnancy; Preteen Pregnancy; Pregnancies, Preteen; Pregnancy, Preteen; Preteen Pregnancies;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug effects; ethnology; genetics; immunology; metabolism; physiology; psychology; radiation effects; urine; ethics; prevention & control; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: G08.686.785.760.769.494;

History Note: 79

Technical Notes: IM; use only for pregnancy as a social, cultural, or psychological problem in adolescents; for other aspects of PREGNANCY (IM) in adolescents, use PREGNANCY (IM) + ADOLESCENT (check tag); includes pregnancy in children under 13; check tags HUMAN; FEMALE; PREGNANCY & ADOLESCENT or CHILD if under 13