Conference paper

TEENAGE PREGNANCY: A PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL RISK FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES?

Gwendoline Goossens ; Université libre de Burxelles, Child psychiatry ,Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola (HUDERF), Brussels, Belgium
Caroline Kadji ; Université libre de Bruxelles,Gynecology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium
Veronique Delvenne ; Université libre de Bruxelles, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Introduction: 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.
Method: 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.

Keywords

teen pregnancy; teenage mother; teenage childbearing

Hrčak ID:

264605

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/264605

Publication date:

8.9.2015.

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