HEALTH PROMOTING PREGNANT ADOLESCENTS

该提案的总体目标是在以下方面实现积极变化： 青少年的健康保护、健康促进、决策和 并通过这些做法促进母亲的健康 和新生儿 具体目标是：测试护理的效果 对具体做法的干预;学校进展，新生儿长度 怀孕、出生体重和推迟随后怀孕;以及 确定上下文和个人变量的相对强度， 解释不同种族/人种（E/R）组的结果差异。 一 干预措施的随机试验将使用880个实验和 240名来自非裔-盎格鲁-和墨西哥裔美国人群体的对照S，来自 德克萨斯州的八个地点 网站是多样化的，提供E/R的多样性和 从农村和城市地区招募学生。 标准化文书和 一般来说，将使用测量程序，并进行额外的预测试 重新评估可靠性和有效性。 方差分析和多元回归技术将用于 测试效应并描述每个E/R组中因素的影响。

The broad objective of the proposal is to effect positive changes in adolescents' health protection, health promotion, decision-making and assertiveness practices and through them to promote better health of mother and newborn. Specific aims are to: test the effects of a nursing intervention on the practices specified; school progression, newborn length of gestation, birth weight and delay of subsequent pregnancy; and to determine the relative strength of contextual and personal variables in explaining variations in outcomes by ethnic/racial (E/R) groups. A randomized trial of the intervention will be used with 880 experimental and 240 control Ss from Afro-Anglo- and Mexican-American populations drawn from eight sites in Texas. Sites are diverse, providing E/R diversity and the recruitment of Ss from rural vs urban areas. Standardized instruments and measuring procedures will be used, in general, with additional pre-testing on the populations of interest to re-assess reliability and validity. Analyses of variance and multiple regression techniques will be used to test effects and profile the impact of factors in each E/R group.