FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PRETERM DELIVERY AMONG PREGNANT ADOLESCENTS

Citation
C. Stevenssimon et al., FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PRETERM DELIVERY AMONG PREGNANT ADOLESCENTS, Journal of adolescent health, 14(4), 1993, pp. 340-342
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
ISSN journal
1054139X
Volume
14
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
340 - 342
Database
ISI
SICI code
1054-139X(1993)14:4<340:FAWPDA>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
The purpose was to identify characteristics of pregnant adolescents as sociated with preterm delivery. We studied 126 poor, black, 12 through 18-year-old pregnant adolescents and compared the prevalence of poten tially high-risk maternal characteristics and obstetric complications in those who bore preterm and term infants. Of the adolescents, studie d, 12 (9.5%) delivered prematurely. Five maternal characteristic-conce ption within 3 years of menarche, a low body mass index, a past histor y of physical or sexual abuse, a socially deviant father of the baby, and vaginal bleeding during the first 8 weeks of gestation-were associ ated with preterm delivery. A theoretical model is proposed and the th erapeutic implication of the study findings.