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Adolescent Pregnancy and Contraception
Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 20147% of US teen women became pregnant in 2008, totaling 750,000 pregnancies nationwide. For women ages 15 to 19, 82% of pregnancies are unintended. Adolescents have a disproportionate risk of medical complications in pregnancy. Furthermore, adolescent parents and their infants both tend to suffer poor psychosocial outcomes.
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Ectopic pregnancy in adolescents
Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2008Ectopic pregnancy continues to be an important cause of morbidity and mortality in women. Tubal damage is the likely cause of ectopic pregnancy. Healthcare providers who care for adolescents must screen for and treat sexually transmitted diseases like Chlamydia in order to decrease the risk of tubal damage and ectopic pregnancy.
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Adolescent Pregnancy and Loneliness
Public Health Nursing, 1998ABSTRACT The number of adolescent pregnancies in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. Loneliness and adolescent sexuality, however, have not been previously studied. This descriptive study investigated the relationships of characterological and situational loneliness in childbearing adolescents. Related variables of shyness, selfâesteem,
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Antecedents of Adolescent Pregnancy
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1980SummaryThe recognition of which girls are at risk of becoming pregnant before the age of 16 years is of interest to legal, educational, social and medical services. In this paper a large amount of data, available for a total population of schoolgirls, has been used to show that prediction is indeed possible.
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Adolescent pregnancy in Tasmania
Medical Journal of Australia, 1984The obstetric performance of 1719 pregnancies in mothers aged less than 18 years was compared to that of the rest of the obstetric population. There was a significantly poorer outcome in the adolescents in the mean birthweight, the prevalence of birthweight below 2500 g and of gestation period below 28 weeks, Apgar score, perinatal mortality and the ...
J F, Correy +3 more
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Adolescent pregnancy prevention
Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 1999The United States continues to have the highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in the western industrialized world. This review focuses on the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy rates and the recent slight decline in the number of sexually experienced youths. Risk factors for adolescent pregnancy, such as history of forced sexual intercourse and lack
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Adolescent pregnancy in Israel
International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 2002Teenage or adolescent pregnancy requires the extensive involvement of health care workers in respect to the medical and social aspects of pregnancy, delivery, and later care of both mother and child. Trends in adolescent pregnancy over the last few years from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom are presented and related to data from ...
Joav, Merrick, Mohammed, Morad
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Adolescent pregnancies and problems
Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 1979Abstract Adolescent pregnancy is a critical world-wide problem. This paper defines the subject, overviews international and national statistical data, identifies the problems and the effect of the scope of these problems on a society, emphasizes the role of maternal nutrition and its effect on birth weight and pregnancy outcome, discusses the ...
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Adolescent pregnancy and parenting
The Journal of Primary Prevention, 1990This study is an investigation of the child rearing strategies endorsed by pregnant adolescent girls. The sample consists of 124 adolescent girls drawn from suburban and center-city schools in the Detroit Metropolitan Area. Child rearing strategies were assessed using the Rickel Modified Form of the Block Child Rearing Practices Report.
E, Thomas +3 more
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An Adolescent with Rhabdomyosarcoma during Pregnancy
Tumori Journal, 2008We report the case of a 15-year-old girl with a large gluteal and perineal rhabdomyosarcoma diagnosed at 24 weeks of pregnancy, whose management posed a great clinical dilemma for us. The patient refused to consider a therapeutic abortion, so we opted for a customized treatment with mild doses of chemotherapy administered weekly to control tumor growth
C. Meazza +6 more
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