title: Advancing adolescent maternal development: a grounded theory.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper reports a substantive grounded theory called the theory of Advancing Adolescent Maternal Development.
  
  
  METHODS
  A grounded theory approach was used.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty public health nurses working with adolescent clients in a state public health nurse home visiting program volunteered to participate in this study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The basic social psychological problem that emerged from the data was incomplete and at risk adolescent maternal development. Social support and public health nursing interventions are central in the problem resolution process which occurs in stages.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Study results can be used to inform the nursing care of pregnant and parenting adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Pinon Health Center, Pinon, AZ. Electronic address: Leah.Atkinson@frontier.edu.
authors.forename: Leah D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Atkinson
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Cynthia J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Peden-McAlpine
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D066296:Grounded Theory; D006801:Humans; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D024802:Nurse's Role; D064689:Nurses, Public Health; D016487:Parenting; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000523:psychology*; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012944:Social Support
keywords: Adolescent parents; Grounded theory; Pregnancy in adolescence; Prevention; Public health nursing; Qualitative research