Rothenberg P B, Varga P E
Am J Public Health. 1981 Aug;71(8):810-7. doi: 10.2105/ajph.71.8.810.
This study investigates the relationship between age of mother and children's health and development at birth and at approximately three years of age. The sample is composed of Black and Hispanic women and their firstborn children who were delivered on the wards of a large New York City hospital in 1975. There were no differences between children of teenage and older mothers in terms of prematurity or birthweight, but the children of younger mothers had higher Apgar scores than those of older mothers. Age of mother was not significantly related to hospitalizations, the need to see a physician regularly, or abnormal weight. Although the number of injurious conditions and the incidence of burns were higher among the children of adolescent mothers, the effect of age of mother was not independent of other factors. The children of teenage mothers scored better than those of older mothers on the total Denver Developmental Screening Test, as well as on the Fine Motor sector. These findings thus suggest that when relevant background characteristics are controlled, children of teenage mothers are as healthy and develop as well as children of older mothers.
本研究调查了母亲年龄与孩子出生时及大约三岁时的健康和发育之间的关系。样本由黑人及西班牙裔女性及其1975年在纽约市一家大型医院病房出生的头胎子女组成。青少年母亲的孩子与年龄较大母亲的孩子在早产或出生体重方面没有差异，但年轻母亲的孩子阿氏评分高于年龄较大母亲的孩子。母亲年龄与住院情况、定期看医生的需求或体重异常没有显著关系。尽管青少年母亲的孩子中受伤情况的数量和烧伤发生率较高，但母亲年龄的影响并非独立于其他因素。青少年母亲的孩子在丹佛发育筛查测试总分以及精细运动部分的得分高于年龄较大母亲的孩子。因此，这些发现表明，在控制相关背景特征后，青少年母亲的孩子与年龄较大母亲的孩子一样健康且发育良好。
