1979-1981 Philadelphia Study of Psych. Factors Associated with Adolescent Fertility Regulation-Females
Investigators: Eugenie Walsh Flaherty & Jeanne Marecek

The purpose of this study was to obtain very extensive information from adolescent females on a number of factors that were posited as being related to adolescent fertility regulation, including: parental communication regarding contraception, sex, and pregnancy; exposure to teenage pregnancy; attitudes toward various contraceptives, and contraceptive use. Two samples of adolescents were studied: those who were pregnant at the time of the first interview, and those who were not pregnant and had never borne a child at the time of the first interview. Respondents in the second sample were interviewed twice, with roughly a year's interval between interviews. The pregnant sample was drawn from four obstetrics/gynecology clinics participating in the study; the non-pregnant adolescent sample was drawn from the registry of the Philadelphia Collaborative Perinatal Project. Data were collected by the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation.

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