STUDY AIMS: This qualitative study aims to evaluate the hypothesis that vaccination attitudes, knowledge, and factors of influence differ between pregnant teen and young adults and pregnant adults. The study explores these themes in efforts to offer insight on ways in which vaccine uptake and strategies can be improved. METHODS: Participants that were at least 18 years of age, pregnant, and English or Spanish speaking were recruited from the study sites and interviewed. Qualitative interviews consisted of topics including childhood vaccination importance, adult vaccination importance, vaccine information and trust, influenza vaccination and Tdap vaccination in pregnancy, and COVID vaccination. Data collected from interviews were collaboratively coded and analyzed using content analysis. RESULTS: A total of 13 pregnant teens and young adults and 19 pregnant adults participated. Some topics and questions indicated significant differences that supported the hypothesis and rejected the null that there were no significant differences in vaccine attitudes, knowledge, and influence, between pregnant teens and young adults and pregnant adults. These topics and questions included adult vaccine refusal, knowledge of flu vaccine preventing complications in pregnancy, knowledge of Tdap vaccine during in general, knowledge of maternal Tdap vaccination, knowledge of Tdap vaccine during protecting babies against whooping cough, Public Service Announcement influence, and COVID-19 impact on other vaccines. Compared with adults, teens and young adults were less knowledgeable about some vaccinations, more likely to refuse specific vaccinations, and more likely to say that the COVID pandemic negatively affected their views of vaccinations. Despite these differences, vaccination rates were similar. CONCLUSION: Vaccine attitudes and uptake amongst pregnant teens and young adults did not generally differ in most instances from pregnant adults. However, a huge knowledge gap between the two groups were evident. Despite vaccine adherence with limited knowledge in pregnant teens and young adults, their most trusted sources, like health care providers, should put forth greater efforts to provide teens and young adults with vaccine knowledge through suitable platforms and sources.

Engulfed by the tumultuous 1960s, seventeen-year-old Katherine Dayes conceals her pregnancy from the conservative seaside community of Samphire, her hometown. The novella traces a year in Katherine's life, from her summer of love through a winter stained by blood and moonlight. Throughout the story, Katherine endures the push and pull of a culture torn between tradition, represented by community leader Margaret Blythe, and modernism, embodied by the free spirit Evelyn Partridge. Inspired by the life of an actual eighteenth-century woman, Samphire explores the complexities of the 1960s feminist movement. Using vivid imagery of natural elements, it examines opposing views of sexuality and cultural criticisms that women have faced throughout history. The character-driven narrative seeks to deconstruct societal views of teen pregnancy, motherhood, women's sexuality, and infanticide by exploring the psyche of a young woman caught between cultural perceptions and her personal reality.

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Knowledge gaps exist related to the care and education of pregnant teens. This project study addressed the problem of an inadequate amount of professional development (PD) and training for healthcare professionals (HCPs) caring for pregnant teens at a maternity clinic in the Southeastern United States. Unless HCPs are appropriately trained, the ability to meet the needs of pregnant teens is deficient and negative health outcomes for these patients are likely to be exacerbated. The humanistic learning theory was used in this phenomenological exploratory study to explore perception of 9 HCPs who had the responsibility for patient teaching, clinical care, and were full time employees at a maternity clinic. The research questions focused on the perceptions of the HCPs regarding their experiences of PD as it relates to the care of pregnant and parenting teens, strengths and weaknesses of their current PD, and how their PD could impact the health outcomes of pregnant and parenting teens. The themes developed from the interview data revealed a need for an expansion of HCP knowledge and skills to improve the healthcare of pregnant and parenting teens, as well as challenges associated with the current PD plan. The resulting project consisted of a 3-day workshop to increase the HCPs' proficiency and efficacy in caring for pregnant and parenting teens. Evaluation of the project will be through formative and summative assessment. The project contributes to positive social change at the local clinic by reinforcing the HCPs' skills in in educating, caring for, and supporting the teen parent population.

Si le teen movie a su devenir un genre cinématographique à part entière, les teen series se sont elles aussi fait une place de choix dans la culture populaire américaine. Notre sujet d'étude porte sur la construction de l'adolescente-e américain-e à travers les premières saisons de onze séries télévisées de 1990 à 2010 : Beverly Hills 90210, My So-Called Life, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, Freaks and Geeks, Smallville, The O.C., One Tree Hill, Gosip Girl, Glee et Huge. Nous observons dans ce travail les évolutions et les constantes sociologiques, historiques, culturelles et politiques de l'adolescence télévisuelle et les analyserons en intégrant notamment des problèmatiques de classe sociale, de groupes ethniques et de genre. / After teen movies became a bona fide cinematographic genre, teen series began to occupy a prominent place in American popular culture. In our research we investigate the construction of American teenage girls and boys through the first seasons of eleven teen series from 1990 to 2010: Beverly Hills 90210, My So-Called Life, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, Freaks and Geeks, Smallville, The O.C., One Tree Hill, Gosip Girl, Glee et Huge. We observe the sociological, historical, cultural and political evolutions and permanent features of adolescence, taking into account social classes,ethnic groups and gender problematics.