2005 Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 1_52-1_63
Purpose
In order to clarify the research trend in the areas of health cares and nursing cares for domestic teenaged pregnant women, we are to review by focusing on the annual transition and the levels of evidences in the documents.
Method
The range of this research is by setting the target for teenaged pregnant women and the teenagers who gave births and were rearing children. The target magazine, Japan Centra Revuo Medicina “Japana Centra Revuo Medicina WEB:” (from January 1990 to March 2004) and Japanese Nursing Association Publication “The research of the latest nursing care” (from 1990 to 2003) was used and researched with the key words of juvenile pregnancy, young primipara, teenager pregnancy and adolescent pregnancy. The method of analysis was to break down the main author's organization and profession, and also analyze the annual transition by the numbers of the documents, the levels separated by the topics of the research and highly evidenced documents that are serving for the nursing cares.
Results
1) As the result of classifying into the evidence levels, there were no studies of RCT in the level I and cohort studies in the level II-1. There were 23 cases of comparative studies and accumulated case studies in the level II-2, but not so many researches were highly evidenced.
2) 60% of the documents were included in the years from 1990 to 1993, and many of them were the reports about the current situations in the evidence level III by the doctors.
3) The number of the documents after 1996 was decreasing but the member of the incident studies focusing on the research about psychological and social aspects and questionnaire surveys are slightly increasing. The researches on this area is gradually developing.
4) In order to increase the highly evidenced researches available for nursing cares in the future, conduct the quantitative studies taking into account about various methods of the studies as well as the qualitative studies considering target's complex social and psychological situations. It is necessary to develop the researches that lead to the solution and to understand the problems from various points of view.
Conclusion
According to this document researches, it became clear that the further studies of are needed that will lead to the solution and the understanding from the multiple aspects.
