teenage pregnancy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofteenageandpregnancy
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teenage
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈtiːn.eɪdʒ/us/ˈtiːn.eɪdʒ/
aged between 13 ...
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pregnancy
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈpreɡ.nən.si/us/ˈpreɡ.nən.si/
the state of ...
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(Definition ofteenageandpregnancyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Psychosocial variables associated withteenagepregnancy.
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Understanding the impact of effectiveteenagepregnancyprevention programs.
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Theteenagepregnancystrategy has operated throughout the country, providing local partnerships to reduceteenagepregnancy.
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Teenagepregnancyrates, for example, may rise.
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Together these two processes accounted for the observed association between early conduct problems and laterteenagepregnancyin this cohort.
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A potential shorter-term complication of adolescent 'risk-taking' behaviour, more amenable to research, is that ofteenagepregnancy.
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In turn, these behavior problems were found to be associated with increased rates ofteenagepregnancy, school dropout, and unemployment.
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Person-environment interactions are implied by our finding thatteenagepregnancyis associated with juvenile- but not adult-onset depression.
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Theteenagepregnancystrategy is clearly also having an impact.
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We are concerned in this country withteenagepregnancyrates.
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Are we giving an antidote toteenagepregnancy?
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There are implications for pregnancy—especiallyteenagepregnancy.
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The results show that controlling for confounding factors reduced the strength of the association between early conduct problems and later risk ofteenagepregnancy.
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For each group, the table shows the percentage of young women who had experienced ateenagepregnancyby the age of 18 years.
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This result suggests the presence of a possible cause and effect relationship between the extent of early conduct problems and later risk ofteenagepregnancy.
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However, even after extensive efforts to control for the effects of confounding factors, childhood conduct problems remained a significant predictor of subsequentteenagepregnancy.
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More generally, the results of this study suggest that the association between early conduct problems and laterteenagepregnancymay arise by two general pathways.
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This raises the issue of the risk factors and life processes that may intervene between early conduct problems and subsequentteenagepregnancy.
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In both cases, control for confounding and intervening factors reduced the association between early conduct problems and laterteenagepregnancyto statistical nonsignificance.
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