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Adolescent sexuality and pregnancy
Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2000The adolescent pregnancy rate has decreased throughout the USA. However, compared with other industrialized countries, US rates remain high. Efforts to decrease the number of teenage pregnancies are centered on sex education, postponing sexual activity, and safe sex practices.
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Contraception and Adolescent Pregnancy
JOGN Nursing, 1980To identify reasons for increasing numbers of pregnant adolescents, questionnaires were distributed to teenagers with unplanned pregnancies to determine the level of their knowledge of contraception. Findings revealed that 94% of the subjects had an adequate knowledge of availability, while only 43% had an adequate overall knowledge of contraception ...
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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
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Illegitimate Pregnancy in the Adolescent
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1966Summary: A retrospective review of illegitimate pregnancy in 414 Australian teenagers during a two‐year period is presented. The special problems in pregnancy were pre‐eclamptic toxaemia and eclampsia, anaemia, venereal disease and urinary tract infection.
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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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Depression and Adolescent Pregnancy
Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 2005Susan is a 15-year-old primigravida. She reports a 2year history of multiple substance abuse: cold medicine, alcohol, ecstasy, cocaine and marijuana. She has been hospitalized three times for suicidal ideation by cutting and substance overdose, one at age 13 and more recently, four months ago.
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Adolescent Pregnancy Revisited
New England Journal of Medicine, 1978Trends in Births to Adolescents Falling birthrates in the United States bring joy to the Malthusians and supporters of zero population growth, and fear to the administrators of the Social Security Trust Fund, to hospitals with underpopulated maternity wards and to schools and colleges facing certain reduced enrollment.
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Pregnancy in Adolescence: Is It an Obstetrical Risk?
Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 2016A. Kırbaş, H. Gulerman, K. Dağlar
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Pediatrics, 2005
This Clinical Report was retired June 2025. The prevention of unintended adolescent pregnancy is an important goal of the American Academy of Pediatrics and our society. Although adolescent pregnancy and birth rates have been steadily decreasing, many adolescents still become pregnant. Since the last statement on adolescent pregnancy was
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This Clinical Report was retired June 2025. The prevention of unintended adolescent pregnancy is an important goal of the American Academy of Pediatrics and our society. Although adolescent pregnancy and birth rates have been steadily decreasing, many adolescents still become pregnant. Since the last statement on adolescent pregnancy was
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