The Effect of Teenage Maternity on Obstetrical and Perinatal Outcomes

Pregnancy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Influence of Young Maternal Age on Pregnancy Outcome in Central Europe

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01115413
• Other study ID #: UKSH-HL-10-064
• Status: Completed
• Start date: April 2010
• Est. completion date: December 2013

Study information

• Verified date: May 2018
• Source: University of Luebeck
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to estimate the effect of maternal teenage on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes among Caucasian pregnant women.

Description:

During the past decade in the United States, approximately 10 percent of teenage girls from 15 to 19 became pregnant. According to the National Vital Statistics Report 2009 seventy of one thousand births in the United States accounted to teenagers from 15 to nineteen years of age during in 2005 and fell to forty per 1,000 women in 2006. In contrary, the overall teenage birth rate lay at twenty- two per 1,000 births in Massachusetts in 2007 ranging from seventy to thirteen per 1,000 women for Hispanic vs. white women aged 15- 19 years. Central European data showed equal results for teenage pregnancy birth rates. According to the German National Institute of Vital Statistics thirty-four of one thousand births in Germany accounted to teenagers younger than 20 years of age. This pattern is a source of concern since teenage mothers have an increased risk of having low-birth- weight babies, premature babies, and babies who die during the first year of life. Additionally, teenage mothers are more likely to suffer from other concomitant pregnancy diseases such as preeclampsia or anemia.

Furthermore, teenage mothers are more likely than older mothers to be poor, less well educated, non- white, unmarried and they are less likely to have received early prenatal care. Dealing with pregnant adolescents therefore means a great challenge in modern obstetrics. Previous research has shown racial differences as well as weight differences for increased risk of adverse prenatal outcome among African Americans and teenagers. Taking into account the impact of race on pregnancy outcomes, our goal was to examine the relationship of young maternal age on obstetrical outcomes in a predominantly Caucasian central European teenaged population.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 150
• Est. completion date: December 2013
• Est. primary completion date: December 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 11 Years to 50 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Nulliparity

• Maternal age of < 18 years for group A and

• Maternal age >/= 18 years for group B

Exclusion Criteria:

• Preterm delivery < 24 + 0 weeks of gestation post menstruation

• Confirmed multiple pregnancy

• Maternal and fetal co morbidity

• Presentation other than cephalic presentation and incomplete data

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Pregnancy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Schleswig- Holstein University, Campus Lübeck, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology	Lübeck	Schleswig- Holstein

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Luebeck

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

References & Publications (3)

Picklesimer AH, Jared HL, Moss K, Offenbacher S, Beck JD, Boggess KA. Racial differences in C-reactive protein levels during normal pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Nov;199(5):523.e1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.04.017. Epub 2008 Jun 9. — View Citation

Steinfeld JD, Valentine S, Lerer T, Ingardia CJ, Wax JR, Curry SL. Obesity-related complications of pregnancy vary by race. J Matern Fetal Med. 2000 Jul-Aug;9(4):238-41. — View Citation

Woods C. At-risk, pregnant youth and appropriate use of health care. Am Fam Physician. 2010 Mar 1;81(5):577. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	mode of delivery		9yrs
Secondary	time of labor		9yrs
Secondary	maternal injury during labor and delivery		9yrs
Secondary	neonatal outcome		9yrs