The Effectiveness of an Infant Simulator as a Deterrent to Teen Pregnancy Among Middle School Students
Description:
This research was one of the first longitudinal studies to determine the effectiveness of a computerized infant simulator as a deterrent to adolescent pregnancy. All of the female eighth-grade students (221) in 1994-1995 and 1995-1996 from a suburban North Texas middle school were part of this study. They were tracked from the eighth grade through high school graduation to determine whether and when pregnancies occurred. The Kaplan-Meier procedure for survival analysis was used to determine tes…
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Date:
August 2000
Creator:
Hillman, Carol Best
Partner:
UNT Libraries