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Objective: To demonstrate that rephrasing the questions used to assess childbearing intentions to quantify the strength of the intent to remain nonpregnant, rather than the strength of the intent to become pregnant, would make teenagers' responses more useful to health care providers, family planning counselors, and health policy makers. Methods: Examples from the teen pregnancy prevention literature are used to support the recommendations for change. Results: Teenagers rarely plan their pregnancies. However, because those who are having sexual intercourse must actively try not to become pregnant or they will likely conceive, teenagers often become pregnant because they lack a firm commitment not to do so. Thus, to accurately profile the antecedents of adolescent pregnancy, (1) the questions used to assess childbearing intentions must be rephrased so that teenagers who intend to remain nonpregnant can be distinguished from those who do not and (2) separate differential diagnoses must be developed for inconsistent contraceptive use within these 2 groups of teenagers who are at risk for unintended pregnancy. Conclusion: Asking sexually active teenagers about the strength of their intent to remain nonpregnant will make the results of office interviews and national surveys more useful because the responses such questions elicit will enable health care providers and policy makers to target common, modifiable antecedents of inconsistent contraceptive use for interventions. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:1298-1300

Too busy to read all of the journals? Let Dr Gwen Lewis update you on the latest research. Use of IUDs in adolescents J Ado Health 2012; 51(4): 319-24 As [...]

''First base, second base, third base, home run,'' Al Vernacchio ticked off the classic baseball terms for sex acts. His goal was to prompt the students in Sexuality and Society [...]

New programs improve outcomes for teens By Melanie Gold, DO Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Staff Physician University of Pittsburgh Student Health Service and [...]

Byline: Lisa Lockwood Candie's Fights Teen Pregnancy Bristol Palin and Crosby, stills & nash may seem like strange bedfellows, but they were among the headliners last week at the Candie's [...]

Byline: Jason Halbert Amid all the rhetoric and debate over health care and ballooning federal budgets lies an important shift in federal financing and policy that represents a terrific opportunity [...]

New data on abstinence -- What do they mean for teen pregnancy prevention? U.S. teen pregnancy rate rose 3% in 2006 after decade of decline Results from new research of [...]

The article discusses the vital role that sexual and reproductive health nurses play in implementing preventive strategies as well as treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned and teenage pregnancies. The nurses also offer counseling as and where requires to women at very traumatic times.

Globally, unplanned pregnancy in adolescents is a major public health problem with psychosocial and economic repercussions for the unprepared young individual. The problem is more grave in developing countries where 1/3rd of women are mothers before 20 yrs of age (1). Even though sexarche (age of 1st coitus) is happening earlier now a days but still the young population is unaware of the hazards of unsafe sexual encounters and modes of avoiding it leading to increase in number of teenage pregnancies (2). Awareness of EC in preventing unwanted pregnancies in college going female students was found to be minimal. Efforts should be put in for awareness promotion, improving access and usage in potential users. Health professionals should be involved as many of the respondents relied on them for information on contraceptive methods., Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Methodology Results Discussion Limitations Conclusions References Introduction Globally, unplanned pregnancy in adolescents is a major public health problem with psychosocial and economic repercussions for the [...]

The Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families have retained Iris to handle a brief to promote sexual health and prevent teenage pregnancy following a pitch against […]

'Teachers don't judge pupils, they treat them as individuals. The girls say they are respected' Moat House is helping teenage mothers get back into education and succeed. Kathy Oxtoby reports [...]

Sex is so confusing. On the one hand, you're being told not to do it (by parents and teachers)--that it's 'wrong,' that there's no way you're ready, or that it [...]

When the 'patient' is a whole community As public health nurses, we felt that an awful lot of teen-age girls in our rural community were having babies. We saw these [...]

Hospital administrators are familiar with the realities of teen pregnancy and childbearing in their communities: the high-risk infant, the mother's terminated schooling, the strain on the welfare system, the unpaid [...]

Pharmacies nationwide have joined forces with the government in a new initiative to bring about a decrease in the growing numbers of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. Alliance Pharmacy, [...]

The number of teenage pregnancies is rising day-by-day despite presence of lots of schemes to make teenagers more aware of the dangers of unprotected sex. The NICE draft guidance has suggested that stockpiles of the morning-after pill should be given to young women deemed to be at high risk of pregnancy and vulnerable teenagers should also be offered long-acting reversible contraception.

The seaside towns of the South West are a popular destination for young people during the summer months. But along with the sun, sea and sand comes sex and the [...]

Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Incidence Causes And Risk Factors Consequences Of Teenage Pregnancy Symptoms Of Pregnancy In Teenagers Treatment Of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Of Adolescent Pregnancy Conclusion References Abstract [...]

PR Team: Washington State Department of Health (Olympia, WA) and Desautel Hege Communications (Spokane, WA) Campaign: Abstinence-based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Duration: April to September 2005 Budget: dollars 450,000 STRATEGY [...]

Teenage girls in Bradford are to receive emergency contraceptive services at 18 local pharmacies in a pilot scheme run by Bradford South & West Primary Care Trust. Pharmacists must register [...]

The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) has revised its 1998 teen pregnancy policy to omit the statement that 'abstinence counseling is an important role for all pediatricians' (Tanner L. Associated [...]

The Candie's Foundation benefit gala to combat teen pregnancy, held last Tuesday at New York's Gotham Hall, was quite the affair. In addition to a pair of celebrity honorees, Jane [...]