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Raymond B. Wait

Researcher at Baylor College of Medicine

Publications -  7
Citations -  272

Raymond B. Wait is an academic researcher from Baylor College of Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Family planning. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 263 citations.

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Follow-up of methadone-treated and untreated narcotic-dependent women and their infants: health, developmental, and social implications.

TL;DR: The behavior of methadone-treated women during pregnancy and the postnatal period closely resembled that of drug-free controls, and contrasted with untreated drug-dependent women.
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Incentives and their influence on appointment compliance in a teenage family-planning clinic

TL;DR: Although overall compliance was low, a significant relationship was found between type of program incentive and compliance outcome, and the program using milk coupons as an incentive had the best compliance rate.
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Hispanic adolescent conception and contraception profiles. A comparison.

TL;DR: Although no significant differences were found among ethnic groups for birth control information and use, the desire for pregnancy, grouped by marital status at conception, was significantly different for Hispanics.
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Predominant sexually transmitted diseases among different age and ethnic group of indigent sexually active adolescents attending a family planning clinic

TL;DR: Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated more frequently from patients coming for a sexually transmitted disease screen than from those attending for other reasons, and there was a significant increase in isolation of Mycoplasma species from 18-19-year-old patients, but no such difference was observed for U. urealyticum when compared to younger age groups.
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A curriculum for adolescent mothers: An evaluation

TL;DR: Technical aspects of child-rearing, even when deliberately presented by health educators, did not appear to be easily applied in the extended family setting, and long-term goals seemed inconsistent with the adolescent's behavior.