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ew Window Help Tools Heavey etal-2008 Heavey,et-al-2008 Differences in Pregnancy Desire Among Pregnant Female Adolescents at a State-Funded Family Planning Clinic Elizabeth J. Heavey, CNM, PhD, Kirsten B. Moysich, PhD, Andrew Hyland, PhD Charlotte M. Druschel, MD, PhD, and Michael W. Sil, Ph We wished to examine variables associated with pregnancy desire among pregnant adolescents from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This study analyzed 335 charts at a state-funded family planning clinic. Participants were adolescents who had a positive pregnancy test at the clinic on the day of the survey Logistic regression was utilized to determine differences in were more than twice as likely to desire pregnancy as African American teens (adjusted odds ratio [AOR 2 22; 95% confidence interval lai. 1.22-3 65L and adolescents who were not in school were alma twice as likely as those who were in school full-time to desire pregnancy (AOR· 1.83, 95% ci 108-309. Hispanic teens who were not in school were 12 times more likely to desire pregnancy than African American teens who were in school full-time (odds ratio [ORI. I 1.47: 95% C. 368-3575). Adolescent pregnancy desire is significantly associated with educational status and racial background. Developing cultarally appropriate interventions to encourage continued education and asking about community and familial noms pregnancy desire. We found that Hispanic teens are essential steps in addressing this issue. J Miwifery Womens Health 2008.53:130-137 0 2008 by the American College of Nunse-Midwives keywords: adolescent pregnancy,edacation, pregnancy desire, race, teen pregnancy last 40 years. Today, pregnant adolescents are much more likely to be unmarried, to continue to have subse- INTRODUCTION Despite some reported improvement over the last decade, the rates of adolescent pregnancy in t he United States quent pregnancies into their twenties while not marri remain high compared to other developed natioand have a greater likelihood to need extended welt r likclihood to need extended welfare support than in decades past. The National Center for Lactivity and sexual 8

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Question 1: It is clearly mentioned that a total of 335 teenagers with a positive pregnancy test were analyzed. Therefore, sample size for the study is N = 335.

Question 2: It is a qualitative study because the objective behind the study is "To study the variables associated with the pregnancy desire among pregnant adolescents from low socioeconomic backgrounds" , as mentioned in the first sentence of the abstract. Therefore, the study is trying to only explore the existence of association but not the strength (or extent) of that association.

Question 3: Dependent Variable is Pregnancy desire in Pregnant femal adolescents , because we want to study how does this variable get affected by some other variables. In other words, we want to study how this variable is dependent on some other variables. Hence this is a dependent variable.

Question 4: There are two major independent variables : 1. Educational status 2.Racial background. They are independent variables because we tried to study their effects on the dependent variable namely - " Pregnancy desire in Pregnant femal adolescents" . Hence they are independent variables. There are also other independent variables like : 3.Age 4.Type of Insurance that the female has. 5. Number of Previous pregnancies

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