A 16-Year-Old Has Just Given Birth, and She Plans to Keep

question 14

Multiple Choice

A 16-year-old has just given birth, and she plans to keep and care for the baby. However, the nurse determines that the young mother has low self-esteem, and she does not appear to have adequate social support. The nurse should encourage adequate follow-up care for this young mother for what reason?

• A)She is at risk for postpartum hemorrhage.
• B)She is at risk for postpartum endometritis.
• C)She is at risk for postpartum depression.
• D)She is at risk for postpartum weight gain.

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Definitions:

Reactivity

Reactivity is the tendency of people to alter their performance or behavior due to the awareness that they are being observed.

Reactivity

The phenomenon where subjects alter their behavior due to their awareness of being observed.

Convergent Validity

A measure of the extent to which two independent measures of the same concept are correlated.

Ordinal Scale

A scale of measurement in which the measurement categories form a rank order along a continuum.