title: Teenage pregnancy: a psychopathological risk for mothers and babies?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Teen pregnancy remains a public health problem of varying importance in developing and developed countries. There are risks and consequences for teen parents and the child on the medical and socioeconomic level.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a literature search on multiple databases, focusing on the risk and the consequences of teen pregnancy and childbearing. We used different combined keywords as teen pregnancy, teen mother, teenage parents, teenage childbearing, teenage mother depression. Our search included different type of journals to have access on different views (medical, psychological, epidemiologic).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The teen mothers are more at risk for postnatal depression, school dropout and bad socioeconomic status. The babies and children are more at risk for prematurity and low birthweight and later for developmental delays and behavior disorders.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pregnancy in adolescence should be supported in an interdisciplinary way (gynecologist, psychologist, child psychiatrist, midwives, pediatrician). We need further studies that allow targeting patients most at risk and personalizing maximum support.
authors.affiliation: Université libre de Burxelles, Child psychiatry, Htpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola (HUDERF), Brussels, Belgium, gwendoline.goossens@huderf.be.
authors.forename: Gwendoline
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Goossens
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kadji
authors.forename: Veronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Delvenne
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D019052:Depression, Postpartum / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012944:Social Support