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After reviewing the code book from the "Addhealth Wave 1" study, I was struck by women over the age of 15 who became pregnant at an early age. I was interested in this topic because close friends after high school got pregnant and I want to know if there is any association with resistance to sex by not having a contraceptive method at the time.

Teenage pregnancies after high school.

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After a long time of not having contact with my high school friends finally one day in the supermarket not far from my house I got to greet a friend I met in freshman year and talking to me mentioned that many of our friends had ended up pregnant and with a A quarter of the generation were already parents and some with more than 1 child.

While the number of pregnancies at an earlier age has increased, I need to determine:

“What is the relationship between pregnant women with the ability to control their behavior in the absence of contraception?”

For my code book I don’t want to leave out any variables and risk having a deficiency in the analysis so I will include all the variables related to premature pregnancy in my personal code book.

Variables:

H1RP1: Getting pregnant at this timen in your life is one of the worst things that could happen to you

H1RP2: It wouldn’t be all tha bad if you got pregnant at this time in your life

H1RP5: Imagine that sometime soon you were to have sexual intercourse whit someone just once, but were unable to use any method of birth control for some reason. What is the cance that you would get pregnant?

H1SE1: if you wanted to use birth control, how sure you that you could stop yourself and use birth control once you were highly aroused or turned on?

H1SE2: How sure are you that you could plan ahead to have some form of birth control available?

H1SE3: How sure are you that you could resist sexual intercourse if your partner did not want to use some form of birth control?

Now we could also look at the relationship between early pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases due to poor behavioral control in situations with high sexual stress, in the case of adolescents this type of risk is tried to avoid with a sex education at an early age but the question to answer would be:

“Is there any relation with the ability to control the behavior in a situation where contraception methods are not available with in order to avoid a sexually transmitted infection?”

Since not only women are at risk of becoming pregnant at a very young age, both men and women are at risk of contracting diseases such as AIDS, papilloma, singles, etc. So I must determine that the control of oneself in high-risk situations is so influential because there are no control methods to prevent infections and pregnancies.

To find this relationship with the first question I must add the following variables:

H1RP3: If you got the AIDS virus, you would suffer a great deal.

H1RP4: It would be a big hassle to do the things necessary to completely protect yorself from getting a sexually transmitted disease.

H1RP6: Suppose that sometime soon you had sexual intercourse for a whole month, as often as you wanted to, without using any protection. What is the chance that you would get the AIDS virus?

H1SE4: Compared with other people your age, how intelligent are you?

According to a publication in the Graduate Journal of the Chair of Medicine today adolescents are more likely to have an unwanted pregnancy, as well as the risks involved:

Global profile of adolescents:

• There are more than a billion adolescents, 85% in developing countries. • More than half have had sex before the age of 16. • There are more than 111 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections in children under 25. • More than half of new cases of HIV infection-more than 7000 per day occur in young people. • Rape or incest occurs in 7% to 34% of girls and in 3% to 29% of boys. • Ten per cent of births occur in adolescents. • Maternal death is 2 to 5 times higher in women under the age of 18 than in those aged 20 to 29. • There are 4.4 million induced abortions, most at risk. • One third of hospitalizations are for complications of abortion. • Every five minutes there is suicide due to sexual and reproductive health problems.

At point two it is said that most of these young people start their sexual life at a younger age, before the age of 16 in a more general mink secondary school children are among the 12-year-old16 years and later I will present a study carried out in young adolescents that indicate that the lack of control of behavior in moments of high sexual tension is because they are not yet very aware of their thoughts and therefore do not manage to contain themselves and prefer risk.

In another journal I found that from a cross-sectional descriptive observational study in it, 418 female students from a university center in Havana, regardless of the year they were studying , constituted. The level of knowledge on sexual and reproductive health was assessed by reference to responses to a previously validated survey and the following was found:

Results: • Of the students studied, 78 had at least one unwanted pregnancy, which represented a prevalence of 18.7%, so the occurrence of seven of these events was estimated monthly. • Of the students who had an unwanted pregnancy, 57.7% (45 respondents) demonstrated an inadequate sexual and reproductive health culture. • 28.2% (22 respondents) were female students who, despite having an acceptable culture, showed that they had little control over sexual impulses, "getting carried away for the moment". • A third group, accounting for 14.1% (11 respondents), showed poor use of contraception.

Research question: To carry out the analysis of data it is necessary to generate a hypothesis in order to look for a meaning to the studied data, I would like to check with the selected data in the book "Addhealth Wave 1" the following hypothesis :

“Is there any relation to the ability to control behaviour in a situation where contraception is not available in order to prevent a sexually transmitted infection?”

Bibliographic Sources: 1. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth). (1999, febrero). Codebooks - add healt. INHOME08 Pregnancy AIDS and STD Risk Perceptions.pdf Add Healt. https://addhealth.cpc.unc.edu/documentation/codebooks/ 2. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth). (1999, febrero). Codebooks - add healt. INHOME09 Self Efficacy.pdf Add Healt. https://addhealth.cpc.unc.edu/documentation/codebooks/ 3. Ulanowicz, M. G., Parra, K. E., Wendler, G. E., & Monzón L.T. (2006). RISKS IN TEENAGE PREGNANCY. Revista de Posgrado de la VIa Cátedra de Medicina, 153, 13-14. https://cursos.aiu.edu/Desarrollo%20Humano%20II%20Adolescencia/PDF/Tema%204.pdf 4. Morales, E., Solanelles, A. M., Mora, S. R., & Miranda, O. (2013). Unwanted pregnancy in college students. Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar, 42(2). http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?pid=S0138-65572013000200004&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en#tab1

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