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lived experience of being a teenage mother
Title
The lived experience of being a teenage mother.
Creator
Serey, Alice M., Florida Atlantic University, Beck, Cheryl
Abstract/Description
One out of every ten women aged 15-19 in the United States becomes pregnant each year, yet few studies have been conducted to determine what is important to the teenage mother. The purpose of this study is to develop a structural description of the lived experience of being a teenage mother. Six teenage mothers who attended a teen parent program in a local high school were interviewed. Using Giorgi's method of interpretation for phenomenological studies, a general description of the lived...
Show moreOne out of every ten women aged 15-19 in the United States becomes pregnant each year, yet few studies have been conducted to determine what is important to the teenage mother. The purpose of this study is to develop a structural description of the lived experience of being a teenage mother. Six teenage mothers who attended a teen parent program in a local high school were interviewed. Using Giorgi's method of interpretation for phenomenological studies, a general description of the lived experience of being a teenage mother was developed. Actual quotations from the interviews are utilized to illustrate the themes which emerged and possible resolutions and implications for further nursing research discussed.
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Date Issued
1992
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14836
Subject Headings
Teenage pregnancy, Pregnancy--Psychological aspects, Teenage mothers
Format
Document (PDF)
Adolescent informants about rural teen pregnancy
Title
Adolescent informants about rural teen pregnancy.
Creator
Weiss, Josie A.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3183266
Subject Headings
Rural health--U.S., Sexual ethics for teenagers --Decision making, Sexual ethics for youth --United States, Teenage pregnancy, Teenage pregnancy --Prevention, Teenage pregnancy --Prevention & control, Teenage pregnancy --United States, Teenage pregnancy --United States --Prevention, Teenagers --Sexual behavior --Decision making
Format
Document (PDF)
Teenagers' perspectives of caring during labor and delivery
Title
Teenagers' perspectives of caring during labor and delivery.
Creator
Sanderson, Sylvia., Florida Atlantic University, Schuster, Eleanor
Abstract/Description
The problem of the study was to understand the experience of being cared for by a nurse during labor and delivery. The review of literature for the study examined research focusing on adolescents in labor and delivery, caring and adolescent pregnancy and caring from current nursing literature perspective. Recalled labor and delivery experiences were analyzed phenomenologically in order to extract the meaning of the experience. Five recently delivered primiparous mothers were interviewed....
Show moreThe problem of the study was to understand the experience of being cared for by a nurse during labor and delivery. The review of literature for the study examined research focusing on adolescents in labor and delivery, caring and adolescent pregnancy and caring from current nursing literature perspective. Recalled labor and delivery experiences were analyzed phenomenologically in order to extract the meaning of the experience. Five recently delivered primiparous mothers were interviewed. Interviews followed guidelines designed to elicit descriptions of nurse caring. Interviews were tape recorded and transcribed. Data were reduced through a search for themes, and analyzed using guidelines of Colaizzi (1978). The findings were discussed with four of the participants and they all agreed that their perceptions of the experience had been described. Results of the study produced an exhaustive description and fundamental structure of nurse caring.
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Date Issued
1992
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14873
Subject Headings
Caring, Nurse and patient, Teenage pregnancy
Format
Document (PDF)
Efficancy of a parenting component in a teen parent program in Broward County, Florida
Title
Efficancy of a parenting component in a teen parent program in Broward County, Florida.
Creator
Bessell, Stephanie Joan, Florida Atlantic University, Urich, Ted R.
Abstract/Description
This study took place during the 1990-1991 school year and involved 58 pregnant and parenting teenage participants between 14 and 19 years of age living in north Broward County, Florida. It evaluated the effectiveness of a parenting program by comparing performance of two groups on the Adult and Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI). The experimental group consisted of 39 (out of a potential pool of 139) public high school students. The 39 students of the study completed one full semester at...
Show moreThis study took place during the 1990-1991 school year and involved 58 pregnant and parenting teenage participants between 14 and 19 years of age living in north Broward County, Florida. It evaluated the effectiveness of a parenting program by comparing performance of two groups on the Adult and Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI). The experimental group consisted of 39 (out of a potential pool of 139) public high school students. The 39 students of the study completed one full semester at a special center. The study's control group consisted of 19 teen parents who were non-treatment participants with similar demographic and descriptive profiles. The study also determined which of the subject variables of home environment, age, parenting status, reading level, and grades earned in coursework were correlated significantly with experimental group posttest performance in the AAPI's constructs of empathy, expectations, physical punishment, role modeling, and with a composite total score. Using analysis of variance (ANOVAS), there were no differences on three constructs (empathy, physical punishment and role modeling) between the experimental and control groups. Significant differences between groups were found in the parental expectation and total composite construct. Stepwise regression was used with Florida Atlantic University's Vax using SPSSX for correlations of independent variables with experimental group posttest performance. The parental expectations construct was not significantly correlated with any independent variables. Significantly correlated variables at the.05 level included the "Child Development" class grade with the dependent variables of posttest total composite score, physical punishment, and role modeling. At the.01 level, the "Child Development" grade also significantly correlated with the empathy posttest score. The reading level was significantly correlated with the empathy and physical punishment constructs. Treatment/control group long-term performance paralleled research indicating that participation in programs designed to offer support to teenage mothers was related to positive caregiving styles (Dunst, Vance, & Cooper, 1986). Brooks-Gunn (1991) also found that second-generation teen parents who had been participants in parenting programs were likely to have attained higher levels of education and to have had fewer of their children taken from them 17 years later (Brooks-Gunn, 1991).
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Date Issued
1993
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12329
Subject Headings
Parenting
Format
Document (PDF)
Effectiveness of a multidisciplinary program on pregnancy outcomes for an adolescent population: A comparative study
Title
Effectiveness of a multidisciplinary program on pregnancy outcomes for an adolescent population: A comparative study.
Creator
Adam, Barbara J., Florida Atlantic University, Hektor, Lynne M.
Abstract/Description
The high rate of adolescent pregnancies and births in the United States has had an extensive impact on individual, family, community, and national issues related to health and economics. Teenagers, many of whom are already of lower socioeconomic status, are at risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, as well as incomplete use of available services. This inquiry used a retrospective comparative research design to evaluate the effectiveness of Project Teen in Palm Beach County, Florida....
Show moreThe high rate of adolescent pregnancies and births in the United States has had an extensive impact on individual, family, community, and national issues related to health and economics. Teenagers, many of whom are already of lower socioeconomic status, are at risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, as well as incomplete use of available services. This inquiry used a retrospective comparative research design to evaluate the effectiveness of Project Teen in Palm Beach County, Florida. Project Teen is a multidisciplinary program offering a continuum of support services to pregnant adolescents and newly parenting adolescents and their infants until the infants are 2 years old. Through frequent contacts, home visitation, resource referral, counseling, and education the health care professionals collaborate with the clients to facilitate clients' choices which will maximize families' health potential. Home visitation by care coordinators and senior community health nurses was positively related to pregnancy, family health, and family socioeconomic outcomes.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15248
Subject Headings
Teenage pregnancy, Maternal health services, Teenage mothers--Family relationships, Nursing models
Format
Document (PDF)