Talashek Marie L, Alba Melinda L, Patel Angira
College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
J Spec Pediatr Nurs. 2006 Jan;11(1):14-27. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6155.2006.00040.x.
The purpose of this secondary analysis is to determine whether a developmental maturity model differentially predicts pregnancy for African American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican inner-city teens.
This is a secondary analysis of data from a case control study that tested a model of developmental maturity and teen pregnancy with 183 pregnant and never-pregnant pairs of inner-city teens matched on age, ethnicity, and freshman cohort.
The models differentially predict pregnancy for the separate ethnic groups, with sexual behaviors being the most important factors regardless of ethnicity.
The health disparities of teen pregnancies may not decrease unless patterns of dating/sexual behaviors are reversed.
本次二次分析的目的是确定发育成熟模型是否能对非裔美国、波多黎各和墨西哥城市中心青少年的怀孕情况进行差异预测。
这是一项对病例对照研究数据的二次分析，该研究测试了一个发育成熟与青少年怀孕的模型，研究对象为183对年龄、种族和新生队列相匹配的城市中心怀孕青少年和未怀孕青少年。
该模型能对不同种族群体的怀孕情况进行差异预测，性行为是最重要的因素，无论种族如何。
除非约会/性行为模式得到扭转，否则青少年怀孕的健康差距可能不会缩小。
