TY - JOUR
AU1 - Vázquez-Nava, Francisco
AU2 - Vázquez-Rodriguez, Carlos
AU3 - Saldívar-González, Atenógenes
AU4 - Vázquez-Rodríguez, Eliza
AU5 - Córdova-Fernández, José
AU6 - Felizardo-Ávalos, Jorge
AU7 - Sánchez-Márquez, Wilberto
AB - Previous publications have suggested that living in a nonintact family household and socializing with girlfriends who smoke or who consume alcoholic beverages favor the development of health-risk habits and customs in adolescents. However, their relationship with unplanned pregnancy in adolescents has not been determined. We investigated the association between family structure, employed mother, and female friends with health-risk habits and behaviors with unplanned pregnancy in adolescents (n = 3,130). After adjusting for low maternal educational level and low family income, logistic regression analyses showed that having an employed mother and socializing with girlfriends who have health-risk habits or behaviors, rather than living in a nonintact family household, appear to be the most important health-risk factors for unplanned pregnancy in adolescents. It is important for health-care programs for adolescents to be revised and for their strategies be strengthened in order to reach the objectives for which they were created.
TI - Unplanned Pregnancy in Adolescents: Association with Family Structure, Employed Mother, and Female Friends with Health-Risk Habits and Behaviors
JF - Journal of Urban Health
DO - 10.1007/s11524-013-9819-6
DA - 2013-08-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/unplanned-pregnancy-in-adolescents-association-with-family-structure-Ha14DI37Pm
SP - 176
EP - 185
VL - 91
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -