The program being evaluated is the Teen Mother and Child Program (TMCP) of the University of Utah, an outpatient hospital-based multidisciplinary health and education program which also contains a client home-visit component for pregnant and parenting teens. (The care program is called TMCP; the evaluation of that program is called APEOS.) The study (APEOS) began in 1981 and AFL funding began in October 1982. TMCP is being compared with traditional, more fragmented services provided to a convenience sample of teens in the community through enrollment in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. The 260 cases in the data file consist of 125 from the TMCP program and 135 from the WIC program, all of whom received services during an 18-month period between January 1983 and July 1984. The evaluation consists of (1) demographic, prenatal and pregnancy information; (2) a 4-week follow-up; (3) a 6-month follow-up; (4) a set of 9-month Bayley scores; (5) a 12-month follow-up; (6) an 18-month follow-up; (7) a 26-month follow-up; and (8) a set of 26-month Bayley scores. Data include maternal educational and occupational information, maternal child development, parenting knowledge and behavior, maternal and infant health, maternal psychosocial status, infant mental and motor development, infant language development, and infant health status. The evaluation is designed to test the hypothesis that a comprehensive and coordinated teen pregnancy program which includes medical, nutritional and psychosocial services at a single site can improve obstetrical and perinatal outcomes, improve mother and infant health development, improve maternal vocational educational outcomes and reduce the rate of rapid repeat pregnancies.

The last variable in the present data set is MEXC1610, ``ID Number for DAAPPP Data Sets C2 and C3,'' and can be used to link data from the same cases in the other two data sets.