Teen Pregnancy and Depression Article Summaries

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Judy Tutwiley

Teen Pregnancy and Depression Article Summaries

Article I

Update on Adolescent Motherhood and Postpartum Depression

McGuinness, Teena M, PhD, CRNP, FAAN; Medrano, Bonnie, BSN, RN; Hodges, Ashley, PHD, CRNP.

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 51.2 (Feb 2013): 15-18.

This article talks about Postpartum Depression (PPD). This is a disorder that occurs in the first year after the delivery of a baby. Adolescent mother experience PPD two to three times higher than the rate of worm which is 20% to 28% (Hewitt et al., 2009). Adolescent supportive relationships between them and their partners are difficult to establish because of the “early onset of parenthood often inhibits the development of stable relationships (Lanz, Bert, and Jacobs, 2009 p 195). In this article you read about the high PPD rate among adolescent mothers and what bring about depression. The fact that relationships, stress between the teen mom and life with her parents and relationship with the baby’s father and also her teen friends and her education does not make it any easier for them not to be depressed.

Article II

Childhood Victimization: Relationship and Adolescent Pregnancy Outcome

Child Abuse and Neglect   volume 18, Issue 7, July 1994, pages 569-575

Catherine Stevens-Simon, Elizabeth R. McAnarney

In this article you find information on a study that was done on 127 poor, black, 12-18-year-olds that were pregnant. It talks about those that were physically and sexually abused before becoming pregnant. The study reveals that preciously abused adolescents have stress and depression, not a lot of support than those that are not abused. It also reveals that abused adolescents do not get the proper prenatal care that they should, they gain less weight, and engage in more substance abuse and their babies are smaller in size than those that are not abused.