HEALTH PROMOTING PREGNANT ADOLESCENTS

该提案的总体目标是在以下方面实现积极的变化 青少年的健康保护、健康促进、决策和 自信实践，并通过它们促进母亲更好的健康 和新生儿。具体目标是：测试护理的效果 对指定做法的干预；学校进展、新生儿出生年限 怀孕、出生体重和再次怀孕的延迟；以及 确定上下文变量和个人变量在 解释不同族裔/种族(E/R)群体的结果差异。一个 干预的随机试验将用于880个实验和 240名对照SS来自非洲裔英国人和墨西哥裔美国人 在德克萨斯州有八个地点。场地多样，提供E/R多样性和 从农村和城市地区招募党卫军。标准化仪器和 一般而言，将使用测量程序和额外的预测试 对感兴趣的人群重新评估信度和效度。 将使用方差分析和多元回归技术来 测试效果并分析各E/R组中各因素的影响。

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.