Truancy and teenage pregnancy in English adolescent girls: can we identify those at risk?
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Truancy and teenage pregnancy in English adolescent girls: can we identify those at risk?
BACKGROUND Truancy has been linked to risky sexual behaviours in teenagers. However, no studies in England have examined the association between truancy and teenage pregnancy, and the use of truancy as a marker of teenagers at risk of pregnancy. METHODS Using logistic regression, we investigated the association between truancy at age 15 and the likelihood of teenage pregnancy by age 19 among ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdv029