title: Educational efforts in preventing preterm delivery among inner city adolescents.
abstract: The present study described the effectiveness of using an educational program for self-detection of premature labor in a group of forty-one indigent pregnant adolescents. Twenty-one of these teens self-detected premature labor and received appropriate medical intervention; only four had low birthweight infants and three delivered before 37 weeks. The overall results showed a significant use of the program and a high success to failure rate for those who received medical intervention. The cost-effectiveness and usefulness of this protocol in improving medical outcome for indigent teens are discussed.
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weinman
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Reeves
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Wait
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Hinkley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003663:Decision Trees; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008489:Medical Indigency; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012648:Self Care; D014505:Urban Population