ArticleMaternal and child health journal2012
Teen motherhood and long-term health consequences.
Article in Maternal and child health journal, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.
- Yo Puedo--a conditional cash transfer and life skills intervention to promote adolescent sexual health: results of a randomized feasibility study in san francisco.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2014Trial
- Predictors of Teenage Fatherhood Among Justice-Involved Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic impacts of adolescent pregnancy on education and future employment in Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Article
- Psychopathy is a neglected public health problem.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Teenage mothers report poor health and economic functioning in Western Kenya: A call to action.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- The Association of Teen Pregnancy and Violence: A Multilevel Study in Colombia.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Mental health outcomes beyond the post-partum period among adolescent mothers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2024Review
- Sequencing of Births by Wantedness: Implications for Changes in Mid-Life Health Among Aging NLSY79 Women.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Promoting adolescent mother self-efficacy for parenting roles, and self-care after childbirth: protocol for a mixed methods study.Reproductive health · 2023Article
- Testing mediating pathways between school segregation and health: Evidence on peer prejudice and health behaviors.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Do mothers or females without children have better health-related quality of life across their reproductive years?Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Developmental pathways from child maltreatment to adolescent pregnancy: A multiple mediational model.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Childbearing Biographies and Midlife Women's Health.Journal of aging and health · 2022Article
- Childbearing Biographies as a Method to Examine Diversity and Clustering of Childbearing Experiences: A Research Brief.Population research and policy review · 2022Article
- Stolen childhood taking a toll at young adulthood: The higher risk of high blood pressure and high blood glucose comorbidity among child brides.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- The Importance of Resources and Relationships: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Expectant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care.Child & adolescent social work journal : C & A · 2022Article
- Changes in severity of depression and borderline personality disorder symptoms from pregnancy to three years postpartum in adolescent mothers.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Article
- Determinants of adolescent pregnancy in indigenous communities from the Peruvian central jungle: a case-control study.Reproductive health · 2021Article
- Development and two-phased pilot RCT of a foster/kinship caregiver intervention to improve sexual health communication with youth.Children and youth services review · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The objective of this article is to examine the association of teen motherhood and long-term physical and mental health outcomes. The physical and mental health components (PCS and MCS) of the SF-12 Healthy Survey in the NLSY79 health module were used to assess long-term health outcomes of women who experienced teenage motherhood. Various familial, demographic, and environmental characteristics were indentified and controlled for that may have predicted teen motherhood and long-term health outcomes. The two comparison groups for teen mothers were women who experienced teen-pregnancy only and women who were engaged in unprotected sexual activity as a teenage but did not experience pregnancy. Multivariate ordinary least squares regression was used for analysis. The average PCS and MCS for teen mothers was 49.91 and 50.89, respectively. Teen mothers exhibited poorer physical health later in life compared to all women as well as the comparison groups. When controlling for age, teen mothers had significantly lower PCS and MCS scores compared to all other women. Furthermore, when controlling for familial, demographic, and environmental characteristics, teen mothers exhibited significantly lower PCS and MCS scores. When comparing teen mothers to the two comparison groups, PCS was not statistically different although MCS was significantly lower in the teen-pregnancy group. Teen motherhood does lead to poorer physical health outcomes later in life. On the other hand, poorer mental health outcomes in later life may be attributed to the unmeasured factors leading to a teen pregnancy and not teen motherhood itself. Additional research needs to be conducted on the long-term consequences of teen motherhood.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.