Pregnancy in Adolescence
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Impact of individual values on adherence to emergency contraception practice guidelines among pediatric residents: implications for training.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of individual, system, and interpersonal factors on emergency contraception practices. We hypothesized that abortion attitudes and attitudes toward teen sex would be significant individual factors influencing ... Read more...

Working with teen moms and babies at risk: the power of partnering.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: To describe the nature of how nurses establish and maintain relationships with first-time pregnant, poor teenagers and their families to achieve health and life course outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: Qualitative grounded theory was used to develop ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pregnancy in Adolescence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Integrated sexual health: a better way of working? 29 Sep 2009
• Impact of individual values on adherence to emergency contraception practice guidelines among pediatric residents: implications for training. 29 Sep 2009
• Working with teen moms and babies at risk: the power of partnering. 30 Aug 2009
• Motivational intervention to reduce rapid subsequent births to adolescent mothers: a community-based randomized trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Investigating the relationship between teenage childbearing and psychological distress using longitudinal evidence. 30 Aug 2009
• Sibling relationship, family, and genetic factors in sibling similarity in sexual risk. 30 Jul 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
• Reducing pregnancy and health risk behaviours in teenagers. 7 Jul 2009
• Health outcomes of youth development programme in England: prospective matched comparison study. 5 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
• [Teenage pregnancy as a risk factor for fetal abuse] 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
• Clinical inquiries: Does group prenatal care improve pregnancy outcomes? 29 Jun 2009
• Access to sexual and reproductive health for young people: bridging the disconnect between rights and reality. 14 Jun 2009
• Teenagers and emergency contraception in the UK: a focus group study of salient beliefs using concepts from the Theory of Planned Behaviour. 30 May 2009

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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