CONTEXT Teenagers of low socioeconomic status are more likely to get pregnant, and less likely to choose abortion, than more privileged teenagers. Few studies have used longitudinal data to examine whether these differences persist as overall teenage pregnancy rates decline. METHODS Nationally representative register data from 259,242 Finnish women in three birth cohorts (1955-1959, 1965-1969...

Objective: To analyze the predictive factors of abortion among teenagers with gestational history. Methods: Cross-sectional study carried out with 464 teenagers aged between 15 and 19 years, from Teresina, Piauí, who completed a pregnancy in the first quarter of 2006 in six city maternity hospitals. Data were collected from May to December 2008, at the teenagers' home, after their identificat...

The aim of this paper is to develop and confirm a multi-item measurement scale for peer group influences on teenagers’ TV involvement in a developing country and report on the role teenager’s gender and social class background plays in this regard. Various researchers have proposed reinforcement, modelling, motivation, co-viewing and mediation as the domain items for peer group influence on tee...

Adolescents are particularly susceptible to social influence. Here, we investigated the effect of social influence on risk perception in 590 participants aged eight to fifty-nine-years tested in the United Kingdom. Participants rated the riskiness of everyday situations, were then informed about the rating of these situations from a (fictitious) social-influence group consisting of teenagers or...

Substantial changes in lifestyles, urban environments and transportation systems have led to changed physical activity patterns, especially among underage people. Although we may know the demographic and economic characteristics of underage students’ families and the communities where they live and attend school, we have little scientific evidence of the individual teenagers’ (12 to 18 years ol...

Unlike user studies, inspection based methods are not widely researched in the area of Child Computer Interaction. This paper reports the findings of a study to empower teenagers to facilitate a heuristic evaluation with their peers acting as the expert evaluators. In total 20 teenagers participated in the study, with four of the teenagers acting as facilitators and the remainder as evaluators....