EXPERIENCE WITH AN ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY PROGRAM - PRELIMINARY-REPORT

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 50  (2) , 212-216
Abstract
A program was designed to give comprehensive health care services to pregnant adolescents. The program components include community liason, patient education, counseling and social services, a nurse "on call" program for labor and delivery, and pediatric nurse-practitioner followup. A drug use identification component screens the patients by interview and urinalysis. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy occurred in 10% of the first 202 patients. Forty-three percent had anemia (hematocrit less than 35%), and screening cervical cultures for gonorrhea were positive in 3.5%. Cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana constituted the most commmon nonmedical drugs used, and aspirin the most common medical drug. Eighty-one percent of the patients attended 7 or more antenatal visits, 50% did not miss a single clinic appointment, and 95% completed a postpartum visit, indicating that the program was well accepted by the adolescents.

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