Immunoglobulin deficiency in Stickler syndrome.
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Joanne E Cox
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Youth preferences for prenatal and parenting teen services.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Parenting teens served by a teen-tot program and teens from a prenatal clinic participated in focus groups to explore their perceptions of medical care, social services, and psycho-educational parenting groups. DESIGN: The teens met in four focus groups, two prenatal and two postnatal. SETTING: Teens receiving care from a teen-tot program and associated prenatal clinic in a large metropolitan area in New England. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 16 pregnant (n=6) and parenting (n=10) teens ages ranging from 16 to 21 years (13 African American, 2 Latina, and 1 Haitian) participated in the four focus groups. METHODS: A qualitative focus group study was performed. Structured, culturally sensitive questions guided the discussion based on a hypothetical case scenario. Themes were identified through grounded theory with three coders and differences were reconciled. RESULTS: The groups revealed prenatal and postnatal mothers valued medical and social services provided in a teen-focused hospital clinic. Prenatal teens looked to providers for health education services and group support. Parenting teens requested consistent doctors for their children and social supports for themselves. Both groups desired assistance with social services, education, housing, and finances as well as educational services for fathers. CONCLUSIONS: Teen parents' perceptions and suggestions for services are critical to program development that meets the needs of participants.
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The parenting project for teen mothers: the impact of a nurturing curriculum on adolescent parenting skills and life hassles.
OBJECTIVE: Many teen parents and their babies are at a significant disadvantage because of poverty and inadequate parenting skills. We undertook a study aimed at increasing parenting skills and improving attitudes of teen mothers through a structured psychoeducational group model based on the Nurturing Curriculum. METHODS: All adolescent mothers in the Young Parents' Program were offered enrollment in a 12-week group parenting curriculum (intervention group) and were compared with those who declined the intervention but agreed to participate as comparison subjects (comparison group). This study had an intervention-comparison group design with pretest and posttest measures, including the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI), the Maternal Self-Report Inventory (MSRI), and the Parenting Daily Hassles Scale (Hassles Scale). RESULTS: There were 91 young mothers in the intervention group compared with 54 in the comparison group. While controlling for mother's age, baby's age, and race, the repeated-measures analyses showed that mothers who participated in the intervention group or attended more group sessions experienced improvements in their mothering role (MSRI) (trend), perception of childbearing experience (MSRI), appropriate developmental expectations of their child (AAPI), empathy for the baby (AAPI), and a reduction in the frequency of hassles in child and family events (Hassles Scale). CONCLUSION: The intervention group showed improvement in parenting skills and life hassles after participation in the intervention curriculum. More interventions are needed to confirm the positive effect of the group-based interventions on parenting and life skills of young mothers that may improve the social, emotional, and cognitive outcomes for the children born to teen parents.
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