How does maternal age affect pregnancy planning in Puerto Rico?
P. R. health sci. j
;
21(2): 127-128, Jun. 2002.
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: lil-334435
RESUMO
Family planning is essential to most prenatal care programs. It is generally believed that maternal age influences the planning of pregnancy with younger patients having higher incidences of unplanned pregnancies. To test this hypothesis we evaluated 470 consecutive cases of pregnant patients regarding pregnancy planning in their current pregnancy. A total of 170 (36.1) were planned. The incidence of planned pregnancies was evaluated among three age groups and results were as follows less than 20 years old, 18/60 (30.0), patients 20 to 29 years old, 105/270 (37) and more than 29 years old, 47/140 (33.6). These differences were not statistically significant. Surprisingly, no differences among age groups regarding pregnancy planning were identified in this study.
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LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Pregnancy
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Maternal Age
/
Family Development Planning
Limits:
Adolescent
/
Adult
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Female
/
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Caribbean
/
Puerto Rico
Language:
English
Journal:
P. R. health sci. j
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2002
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Puerto Rico
Institution/Affiliation country:
University of Puerto Rico/PR
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