TABLE 1.
Total Study Population, Mean (SD) or % | 6- and 12-Month Subsamples, Mean (SD) or % | White, Mean (SD) or % | African American, Mean (SD) or % | Mexican American, Mean (SD) or % | P | |
Age, y | 16.8 (1.165) | 16.76 (1.17) | 16.95 (1.08) | 16.55 (1.267) | 16.78 (1.13) | .002 |
Education, y | 9.56 (1.72) | 9.58 (1.73) | 10.06 (1.496) | 9.67 (1.47) | 9.07 (1.987) | < .001 |
Gravidity > 1 | 27.2 | 26.3 | 28.3 | 23.6 | 27.0 | .531 |
Parity > 1 | 16.6 | 15.9 | 13.6 | 17.5 | 16.4 | .554 |
Race/ethnicity | … | |||||
Mexican American | 37.6 | 35.5 | 0 | 0 | 100 | |
African American | 32.3 | 33.3 | 0 | 100 | 0 | |
White | 30.2 | 31.1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | |
Spanish survey | 10 | 8.5 | 0 | 0 | 23.9 | < .001 |
Living with parent(s) at delivery | 53.1 | 55.8 | 52.0 | 67.0 | 48.7 | < .001 |
Living with partner at delivery | 40.6 | 39.3 | 53.0 | 9.4 | 55.3 | < .001 |
School status at delivery | ||||||
Enrolled in school or graduated | 26.4 | 26.1 | 37.9 | 14.7 | 26.0 | < .001 |
Dropped out before conception | 24.0 | 21.3 | 22.2 | 9.0 | 32.3 | |
Dropped out during pregnancy | 49.6 | 52.5 | 39.2 | 76.3 | 41.7 | |
Own mother graduated high school or has GED | 75.0 | 75.4 | 51.4 | 74.7 | 28.3 | < .001 |
Feels like has enough money to live | 87.5 | 88.5 | 92.9 | 89.2 | 84.1 | .017 |
Planned pregnancy | 19.0 | 17.8 | 17.7 | 9.4 | 25.7 | < .001 |
Note. GED = general equivalency diploma. P values are for comparisons among racial/ethnic subgroups of White, African American, and Mexican American adolescent mothers. For Whites, n = 198; for African Americans, n = 212; for Mexican Americans, n = 226.