ArticleBMC pregnancy and childbirth2013
Childbearing in adolescence: intergenerational dejà-vu? Evidence from a Brazilian birth cohort.
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- The multigenerational effects of adolescent motherhood on school readiness: A population-based retrospective cohort study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Family context and individual situation of teens before, during and after pregnancy in Mexico City.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2017Article
- Adolescent pregnancy and transition to adulthood in young users of the SUS.Revista de saude publica · 2017Article
- Lower education among low-income Brazilian adolescent females is associated with planned pregnancies.International journal of women's health · 2017Article
- Teenage pregnancy: the impact of maternal adolescent childbearing and older sister's teenage pregnancy on a younger sister.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundPregnancy in adolescence tends to repeat over generations. This event has been little studied in middle and low-income societies undergoing a rapid epidemiological transition. To assess this association it is important to adjust for socioeconomic conditions at different points in lifetime. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyze the independent effect of adolescent childbearing in a generation on its recurrence in the subsequent generation, after adjusting for socioeconomic status at different points in life.
methodsThe study was conducted on a prospective cohort of singleton liveborn females from the city of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, evaluated in 1978/79, and their daughters assessed in 2002/04. A total of 1059 mother-daughter pairs were evaluated. The women who had their first childbirth before 20 years of age were considered to be adolescent mothers. The risk of childbearing in adolescence for the daughter was modeled as a function of the occurrence of teenage childbearing in her mother, after adjustment for socio-demographic variables in a Poisson regression model.
resultsThe rate of childbearing during adolescence was 31.4% in 1978/79 and 17.1% in 2002/04. Among the daughters of the 1st generation adolescent mothers, this rate was 26.7%, as opposed to 12.7% among the daughters of non adolescent mothers. After adjustments the risk of adolescent childbearing for the 2nd generation was 35% higher for women whose mothers had been pregnant during adolescence - RR = 1.35 (95% CI 1.04-1.74).
conclusionAdolescent childbearing in the 1st generation was a predictor of adolescent childbearing in the 2nd, regardless of socioeconomic factors determined at different points in lifetime.
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