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MEDICINE AND THE COMMUNITY Predictors of sexual intercourse and rapid-repeat pregnancy among teenage mothers: an Australian prospective longitudinal study Lucy N Lewis, Dorota A Doherty, Martha Hickey and S Rachel Skinner ompared with adult mothers, teenage ABSTRACT mothers are more likely to originate Cfrom economically disadvantaged Objectives: To examine the determinants of pregnancy within 2 years of a teenager families1 and live in areas of socioeconomic giving birth for the first time (rapid-repeat pregnancy [RRP]) and resumption of sexual 2 intercourse after the birth. disadvantage. Rapid-repeat pregnancy (RRP), defined as pregnancy within 2 years of Design, setting and participants: Prospective cohort study between June 2004 and a first teenage birth,3 compounds this social September 2006 at the sole tertiary obstetric hospital in Western Australia involving inequality, as participation in education and teenagers who gave birth for the first time. Data were collected using questionnaires at The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: work or training is repeatedly delayed and recruitment, 6 weeks and 3-monthly intervals for up to 2 years postpartum. 0025-729X 20 September 2010 193 6 less likely to ever be attained.4 Main outcome measures: RRP and time to a return to sexual intercourse after giving 338-342 Teenage mothers who experience RRP are birth. ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 .au more likely than those who do not to have Results: Of the 147 participants, 49 (33%) experienced an RRP. Sexual intercourse was 3 Medicine and the Community had an intende