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Chlamydia trachomatis: common misperceptions and misunderstandingsCatherine Stevens-Simon
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, 80218, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 18:231-43. 2005
Age at menarche and first pregnancy among psychosocially at-risk adolescentsJessica Dunbar
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, University of Colorado, Denver, Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80045, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1822-4. 2008..Pregnancy prevention interventions to delay coitarche should also include reproductive education and contraception...
Teen contraceptive decisions: childbearing intentions are the tip of the icebergCatherine Stevens-Simon
Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80218, USA
Women Health 42:55-73. 2005..Further research is needed, as the model did not explain contraceptive decision-making adequately...
Management Quandary. Teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases: re-thinking the bedfellow question means that condoms will never be seatbeltsCatherine Stevens-Simon
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, The Children's Hospital, Denver, Colorado 80218, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 19:351-2. 2006
Adolescent pregnancy: do expectations affect intentions?Catherine Stevens-Simon
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80218, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:243. 2005..We hypothesized that the absence of negative childbearing expectations is associated with an increase in the odds that sexually active, inadequately contracepting teenage girls are cognitively susceptible to conception...
Paradoxical adolescent reproductive decisionsCatherine Stevens-Simon
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, The Children s Hospital, 1056 East 19th Street, Denver, CO 80218, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 17:29-33. 2004..To determine why teenagers who say they do not plan to parent if they become pregnant fail to use contraceptives consistently enough to avoid conceiving by default...
Teen home pregnancy test takers: more worried or more wishful?Lisa Kelly
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Children s Hospital, Denver, Colorado 80218, USA
Pediatrics 113:581-4. 2004..To test the hypothesis that teenagers who have taken home pregnancy tests are more ambivalent about remaining nonpregnant than those who have not and, for this reason, use contraceptives less consistently...
Feasibility and utility of screening adolescent mothers for Chlamydia at their children's health care visitsSara Jumping Eagle
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, The Children s Hospital, 1056 East 19th Street, Denver, Colorado 80218, USA
Matern Child Health J 11:586-94. 2007..Assess the feasibility of offering and barriers to accepting urine-based screening for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) among asymptomatic adolescent mothers during their children's health care visits...
Association of conventional goals and perceptions of pregnancy with female teenagers' pregnancy avoidance behavior and attitudesSara Jumping-Eagle
Department of Pediatrics, Colorado Adolescent Maternity Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 40:74-80. 2008..However, research has not shown whether having goals independently influences sexual behavior, or whether the perception that pregnancy represents an impediment to achieving goals mediates any association...
Cervicitis: to treat or not to treat? The role of patient preferences and decision analysisJeanelle Sheeder
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, The Children s Hospital, 1056 East 19th Street, Box B025, Denver, CO 80218, USA
J Adolesc Health 39:887-92. 2006..It begins where prior analyses leave off, with the number of cases of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) prevented...
Characteristics of adolescent women who stop using contraception after use at first sexual intercourseEmily O Kinsella
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 20:73-81. 2007..Identify correlates of contraceptive discontinuation, which if modified, might make teenagers more, not less, effective contraceptors as they age...
Elusive denominators and the illusions they createCatherine Stevens-Simon
J Adolesc Health 41:315; author reply 315-6. 2007
Assent in pediatric researchCatherine Stevens-Simon
Pediatrics 118:1800-1; author reply 1801. 2006
Having the best intentions is necessary but not sufficient: what would increase the efficacy of home visiting for preventing second teen pregnancies?Sarah Gray
Department of Pediatrics and School of Nursing, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Prev Sci 7:389-95. 2006..Identify ways to increase the impact a well-known home-based intervention--the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)--has on conception rates among teenage mothers...
Why lightning strikes twice: postpartum resumption of sexual activity during adolescenceLisa S Kelly
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, The Children's Hospital, Denver, Colorado 80218, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 18:327-35. 2005..Teens with live-in boyfriends and premature babies are especially apt to benefit from the new information in this report as they resume sexual activity sooner than their peers and are less apt to use contraception when they do so...
The Electronic Report on Adolescent Pregnancy (ERAP)Jeanelle Sheeder
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80218, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 17:341-6. 2004....
A cautionary noteCatherine Stevens-Simon
J Adolesc Health 33:322; author reply 322-3. 2003
Ducks have ducks unlessCatherine Stevens-Simon
Pediatrics 111:446-7; author reply 446-7. 2003
Limb pain associated with an undiagnosed hemoglobinopathy and pseudononcyesisCatherine Stevens-Simon
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, CO 80218, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 15:89-91. 2002..Her limb pain was probably triggered by the metabolic and hemodynamic demands of pregnancy. The case illustrates the importance of thoroughly examining patients with recurrent, unexplained physical complaints...
Does incomplete growth and development predispose teenagers to preterm delivery? A template for researchCatherine Stevens-Simon
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80218, USA
J Perinatol 22:315-23. 2002..The need for age-specific interventions is discussed and recommendations for future research are made...
Regional body fat distribution and insulin resistance during adolescent pregnancyCatherine Stevens-Simon
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver 80218, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 102:563-5. 2002
