ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2005
The effect of dislike of school on risk of teenage pregnancy: testing of hypotheses using longitudinal data from a randomised trial of sex education.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Teenage pregnancy and social disadvantage: systematic review integrating controlled trials and qualitative studies.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2009Pooled it
- Young women under 16 years with experience of sexual intercourse: who becomes pregnant?Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2007Trial
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- Co-production of two whole-school sexual health interventions for English secondary schools: positive choices and project respect.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2021Article
- Individual and Contextual Factors Associated with Teenage Pregnancy in Colombia: A Multilevel Analysis.Maternal and child health journal · 2020Article
- Predictors of teenage pregnancy among girls aged 13-19 years in Uganda: a community based case-control study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2019Article
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- Truancy and teenage pregnancy in English adolescent girls: can we identify those at risk?Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2016Article
- 'It has not ruined my life; it has made my life better': a qualitative investigation of the experiences and future aspirations of young mothers from the North West of England.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2015Article
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- Which behavioral, emotional and school problems in middle-childhood predict early sexual behavior?Journal of youth and adolescence · 2014Article
- A comparative analysis of predictors of teenage pregnancy and its prevention in a rural town in Western Nigeria.International journal for equity in health · 2012Article
- A study on pregnant adolescents residing in a government home: common characteristics and their views on the pregnancy.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2012Article
- Pathways to early coital debut for adolescent girls: a recursive partitioning analysis.Journal of sex research · 2012Article
- Wellbeing, alcohol use and sexual activity in young teenagers: findings from a cross-sectional survey in school children in North West England.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2010Article
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Abstract
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objectiveTo examine whether attitude to school is associated with subsequent risk of teenage pregnancy. To test two hypotheses that attitude to school is linked to pregnancy via pathways involving young people having "alternative" expectations or deficits in sexual health knowledge and confidence.
designAnalysis of longitudinal data arising from a trial of sex education. Examination of associations between attitude to school and protected first sex, unprotected first sex, unprotected and protected last sex, and pregnancy, both crude and adjusting in turn for expectation of parenting by age 20, lack of expectation of education/training at age 20, and sexual health knowledge and confidence.
settingSchools in central and southern England.
participantsGirls of median age 13.7 years at baseline, 14.7 years at follow up 1, and 16.0 years at follow up 2. MAIN
resultsIn unadjusted analysis, attitude to school was significantly associated with protected and unprotected first sex by follow up 1, protected first sex between follow up 1 and 2, unprotected last sex, and pregnancy. Dislike of school was more strongly associated with increased risk of these outcomes than was ambivalence to school. These associations remained after adjusting for socioeconomic status and for expectation of parenting, lack of expectation of education/training, and various indicators of knowledge and confidence about sexual health.
conclusionsDislike of school is associated with subsequent increased risk of teenage pregnancy but the mechanism underlying any possible causal link is unlikely to involve "alternative" expectations or deficits in sexual health knowledge or confidence.
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