Teen Pregnancy Increases Obesity Risk
May 15, 2013 | Story
RWJF Scholar finds link to late life weight gain in young moms.
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Building Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships with a Somali Refugee Community
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the experience of female Somali immigrants with the United States medical system, and focuses on reproductive health care. The authors used interviews, focus groups and surveys to identify challenges to care for Somali women.
Doulas Try to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes for Addicted Women
January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Northern New Jersey Maternal/Child Health Consortium collaborated with five northern New Jersey agencies to design and develop a project to improve pregnancy outcomes for drug-addicted women in Paterson, N.J.
Nicotine-Replacement Therapy Needs More Study as an Aid to Helping Pregnant Smokers Quit
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine prepared a background paper on the risks and benefits of using nicotine replacement therapies and other smoking-cessation aids approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat pregnant smokers.
Videos Help Reduce Smoking by Pregnant Women
April 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1997, researchers at the Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Neb., developed an interactive multimedia video program designed to assist low-income pregnant and postpartum smoking women to quit smoking.
Quitters Wanted
January 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Education examined why Medicaid-insured pregnant smokers change or do not change their smoking behavior after entering obstetrical care.
Women Who Give Birth as Teens at Higher Risk of Obesity
April 23, 2013 | Story
New study by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar links teen pregnancy with obesity later in adulthood.
Why New Moms Are Not Getting Enough Sleep
December 12, 2012 | News Release
Study identifies factors that keep new mothers from getting the sleep they need.
The Role of Mental Health Factors, Behavioral Factors, and Past Experience in the Prediction of Rapid Repeat Pregnancy in Adolescence
January 28, 2009 | Journal Article
Rapid repeat pregnancies (RRPs) in adolescents are poorly understood, even though they are some of the pregnancies at highest risk for poor outcomes. This study showed that aggression was associated with higher risk of an RRP, but life history factors such as abuse and depression were not.
Certain Test Results and Desire to Protect Their Children's Health Motivate Women to Quit Smoking
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Investigators at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York, developed a smoking-cessation program for ethnically diverse, low-income women who are pregnant.