Effects of a school nurse prenatal counseling program.
To determine the effects of a school-based, nurse-run prenatal counseling program, records of prenatal care visits of students and their infants' birth weights (i.e., cases) were obtained from the state live birth certificate tape for 1985-1987. From the same tape, a mother residing in the same community but not enrolled in the program was matched with each case on eight criteria to serve as a control. A total of 288 matched case-control pairs were obtained. Using McNemar's test, a significantly higher percentage of the cases received adequate prenatal care than did the controls.
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D000293:Adolescent; D001724:Birth Weight; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002641:Chicago; D003376:Counseling / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016555:Matched-Pair Analysis; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000592:standards*; D012573:School Nursing / Q000592:standards*