The study was conducted by the University of Utah School of Medicine. Respondents were all teen mothers who had at least one delivery at a Teen Mother and Child Program (TMCP) clinic during 1981-1986. The data set includes demographic and socioeconomic information on the mother and father, as well as prenatpael, rinatal, and postnatal health data on mother and child.

The TMCP clinic serves a primarily white urban population in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is operated by the Department of Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine, University of Utah Medical School. A multidisciplinary team of nurse midwife, social worker, nutritionist, financial counselor, outreach counselor, nurse educator, and pediatricians provides a variety of medical, nutritional, and psychosocial services to clients at the hospital site.

One unique feature of TMCP is a volunteer advocacy program which provides health and parenting education in a home setting. The professional team makes a clinical assessment of which teens would benefit from the intensive home-based program. Usually, the most socially high-risk parents, those most at risk for abusing their children, are selected. The volunteers for this program are recruited, trained, and supervised by the outreach counselor. During the home visits, young mothers are taught the skills that will enable them to become better parents. Individualized goals are developed for each teen mother.

The file may be merged with DAAPPP Data Set C1 (variable MEXC2043 in Data Set C2 matches variable MEXC1610 in Data Set C1) and/or DAAPPP Data Set C3 (variable MEXC2001 in Data Set C2 matches varible MEXC3001 in Data Set C3).