Published studies investigating adolescent repeat
pregnancies may not include an assessment of depression
and VE, recruit only one age or ethnic/
racial group, or overlook gravidity, thereby leading
to an erroneous disparity between number of pregnancies
(gravidity) and live births (parity). The purpose
of this study was to (a) describe the prevalence
of depressive symptoms and VE among age and
ethnically diverse adolescents and (b) examine the
influence of depressive symptoms and VE on repeat
pregnancy measured via gravidity and parity.