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Home pregnancy testing by teens flags ambivalence about childbearing.(Counseling Encouraged)
PHILADELPHIA -- When a teenage girl uses a home pregnancy test, it reveals more than whether she's conceived.
It also is a red flag that she sees less of a downside to becoming pregnant, based on the results of a study of 340 adolescent girls at three teen clinics in the Denver area, Lisa Kelly, P.A., said at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.
In this study, girls who used home pregnancy tests "were less motivated to remain nonpregnant, because they expected fewer negative consequences from childbearing," said Ms. Kelly of the division of adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital in Denver.
Their lack of negative expectations "presents an attractive target for intervention," she said, adding that counseling may alter their beliefs about pregnancy and bolster contraceptive use.
The study enrolled a racially diverse group of girls, aged 10-19 years, who reported that they used contraceptives inconsistently and tested negative for pregnancy Among these 340 girls, 94 (28%) reported ...
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