Improving contraceptive use/practices among young women

改善年轻女性的避孕药具使用/实践

• 批准号: 6841147
• 负责人: MELISSA L. GILLIAM
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2005-06-17
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6841147
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; adolescence (12-20); age at pregnancy; attitude; behavior modification; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; contraceptives; data collection methodology /evaluation; family planning; female; focus groups; human ecology; human subject; interview; lifestyle; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; outcomes research; postpartum; safe sex /sex abstinence; sex behavior; social psychology; women' s health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is limited knowledge about the reasons for repeat pregnancies among teenagers. Few interventions designed to prevent subsequent teen pregnancies have been successful. The long-term objective of this investigator is to reduce the number of subsequent pregnancies among low-income, African American and Latino teenage girls. The purpose of this career development award (CDA) is to complete coursework and work with experts in the fields of family planning, minority adolescent health, research methods and survey design. The purpose of this proposal is to further develop an orienting framework for postpartum adolescent contraceptive behavior. This framework will serve as the foundation of future subsequent pregnancy prevention studies by the investigator. Specific Aims: 1. To further develop a proposed framework of postpartum contraceptive use, pregnancy risk and pregnancy avoidance behaviors of low-income, African American and Latino adolescent girls that incorporates biological, daily life, psychosocial/attitudinal, and ecological variables. 2 To develop a study instrument in accordance with the proposed framework. 3. To examine how the proposed variables relate to adolescent mothers' contraceptive, pregnancy avoidance and pregnancy risk behaviors in the year following pregnancy. Research Design and Methods: Focus groups will be held with late adolescent girls who have a history of a single adolescent pregnancy and with those who have a history of more than one adolescent pregnancy. Existing literature and the proposed conceptual framework will guide focus group questions. A study instrument will then be developed and pre-tested. During the last three years, a qualitative and quantitative pilot study will be conducted among postpartum African American and Latino adolescent girls seeking to avoid a second unintended pregnancy in the year following delivery.

描述（由申请人提供）：对于青少年重复怀孕的原因知之甚少。旨在预防青少年随后怀孕的干预措施很少取得成功。该调查的长期目标是减少低收入、非裔美国人和拉丁裔少女的后续怀孕数量。该职业发展奖（CDA）的目的是完成课程作业并与计划生育、少数族裔青少年健康、研究方法和调查设计领域的专家合作。该提案的目的是进一步制定产后青少年避孕行为的指导框架。该框架将作为研究者未来后续妊娠预防研究的基础。具体目标： 1. 进一步制定低收入非裔美国和拉丁裔少女产后避孕药具使用、怀孕风险和避免怀孕行为的拟议框架，其中纳入生物、日常生活、社会心理/态度和生态变量。 2 根据拟议框架开发研究工具。 3. 研究所提出的变量与青少年母亲在怀孕后一年的避孕、避免怀孕和怀孕风险行为之间的关系。研究设计和方法：焦点小组将对有过一次青春期怀孕史的青春期晚期女孩以及有多次青春期怀孕史的女孩进行焦点小组讨论。现有文献和拟议的概念框架将指导焦点小组问题。然后将开发并预先测试研究仪器。在过去三年中，将对产后非裔美国和拉丁裔少女进行定性和定量试点研究，以期避免在产后一年内第二次意外怀孕。