BACKGROUND Although uncommon in teenagers and young adults, cancer is the leading cause of non-accidental death in those aged 15-24 years. A prolonged period to cancer diagnosis in this cohort is reported and thought to be a consequence of the rarity of cancer in this age group, together with the complexity of presenting symptoms. Although diagnostic delay is perceived to be a problem for teena...

We report a study of the association of health and social support variables with motherhood in teenagers and older mothers. Both teenage and older mothers reported poorer physical and mental health and fewer and less frequent social contacts than their nulliparous peers. Contrary to expectation, however, older mothers reported less extensive and less adequate social support networks than did te...

OBJECTIVE This report presents national estimates of sexual activity, contraceptive use, and births among males and females aged 15-19 in the United States in 2006-2010 from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). For selected indicators, data are also presented from the 1988, 1995, and 2002 NSFG, and from the 1988 and 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males, conducted by the Urban Instit...

Correspondence to Dr Oskari Heikinheimo; oskari.heikinheimo@helsinki. fi ABSTRACT Objective: To assess obstetric outcomes in teenage pregnancies in a country with a low teenage delivery rate and comprehensive high-quality prenatal care. Design: Retrospective population-based register study. Setting: Finland. Participants: All nulliparous teenagers (13–15 years (n=84), 16–17 years (n=1234), 18–1...

the aim of the present study was to examine the impact of jihadi camps on the identity formationof teenagers in iran. seventy-six campers participated in the study and were randomly divided into control(n = 42) and experimental groups (n =34). the control group does not follow the camp’s regular program whilethe experimental group attended to the camp’s regular program. all participants complet...

OBJECTIVE To assess obstetric outcomes in teenage pregnancies in a country with a low teenage delivery rate and comprehensive high-quality prenatal care. DESIGN Retrospective population-based register study. SETTING Finland. PARTICIPANTS All nulliparous teenagers (13-15 years (n=84), 16-17 years (n=1234), 18-19 years (n=5987)) and controls (25-year-old to 29-year-old women (n=51 142)) wit...

CONTEXT Teenagers' decisions about how to resolve a pregnancy are made in the context of a society, a family and a relationship with a partner. Little is known about how such decisions are made, however, particularly in Australia. METHODS The association between the influence--both direct and indirect--of significant others and adolescent women's decisions to terminate or continue a pregnancy...

to determine whether teenagers and young adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) have more motor vehicle citations and crashes and are more careless drivers than their normal peers. in fact, studies have found that teenagers and adults with attention deficit disorder are nearly twice as likely as the general population to have had their licenses suspended. people with adhd h...

This study confirmed the hypothesis that pregnant teenagers in the 1990s are more likely to have a mother who had a teenage pregnancy than non-pregnant teenagers. It also found that the daughters of teenage mothers are more likely to continue their own pregnancies.

During the first 12 months of an emergency meningococcal ACWY vaccination program for teenagers in England, coverage among persons who left school in 2015, the first cohort to be vaccinated, was 36.6%. There were 69% fewer group W meningococcal cases than predicted by trend analysis and no cases in vaccinated teenagers.