title: Health education needs of adolescent and nonadolescent mothers.
abstract: A two-group comparative design compared the perceived needs of 22 adolescent and 30 nonadolescent mothers regarding information on self-care and infant care. Data collection was accomplished using a structured questionnaire that focused on some aspects of maternal physical care, mother-infant psychosocial needs, infant physical care, and infant medical needs. Adolescent mothers reported a greater perceived need for information on infant medical care than did nonadolescent mothers. Younger mothers also tended to have higher informational need scores on psychosocial and infant physical care parameters. Nonadolescent mothers had significantly greater perceived needs for information on self physical care.
authors.affiliation: Saint Joseph Medical Center, Department of Nursing, Joliet, Illinois.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Degenhart-Leskosky
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007224:Infant Care; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers; D011247:Pregnancy; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012648:Self Care