A model of teen-friendly care for young women with negative pregnancy test results.
Sexually active adolescents, and especially those who receive negative pregnancy test results, are a self-identified group at particularly high risk for STIs and unintended pregnancies. Although reproductive health care alone will not totally prevent the occurrence of teen pregnancy and STIs, providing care that is accessible and designed to be teen-friendly will help diminish this area of health risk for hundreds of thousands of U.S. adolescents. Clinical interventions that are theoretically sound and based on research allow for the development of innovative, individualized, and evolving models of adolescent health care to address the needs of a challenging group of patients within a changing and competitive health care environment.
Sadler
Lois S
LS
Yale University School of Nursing, 100 Church Street South, PO Box 9740, New Haven, CT 06536-0740, USA. lois.sadler@yale.edu
Daley
Alison Moriarty
AM
D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011247:Pregnancy; D011258:Pregnancy Tests; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D034121:Reproductive Health Services; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States