Trial reportJournal of epidemiology and community health2007
Young women under 16 years with experience of sexual intercourse: who becomes pregnant?
Trial report in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence and associated factors of early initiation of sexual intercourse among youth in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing unintended pregnancies among adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Circle of Life, an HIV-preventive intervention for American Indian middle school youths: a group randomized trial in a Northern Plains tribe.American journal of public health · 2014Trial
- Efficacy of a theory-based abstinence-only intervention over 24 months: a randomized controlled trial with young adolescents.Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2010Trial
- Contraceptive method at first sexual intercourse and subsequent pregnancy risk: findings from a secondary analysis of 16-year-old girls from the RIPPLE and SHARE studies.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2009Trial
- Teenage parents and their children-position paper of the European academy of paediatrics and the European confederation of primary care paediatricians.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Effects of preconception care and periconception interventions on maternal nutritional status and birth outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Review
- Maternal factors associated with low birth weight in public hospitals of Mekelle city, Ethiopia: a case-control study.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2020Article
- Sexual behavior and factors associated with young age at first intercourse and HPV vaccine uptake among young women in Germany: implications for HPV vaccination policies.BMC public health · 2014Article
- Multi-level factors associated with pregnancy among urban adolescent women seeking psychological services.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2013Article
- Why does early sexual intercourse predict subsequent maladjustment? Exploring potential familial confounds.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2013Article
- Patterns of physical and psychological development in future teenage mothers.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2013Article
- Testing putative causal associations of risk factors for early intercourse in the study of twin adults: genes and environment (STAGE).Archives of sexual behavior · 2013Article
- Understanding adolescent parenthood from a multisystemic perspective.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2010Article
- Exposure to sexual lyrics and sexual experience among urban adolescents.American journal of preventive medicine · 2009Article
- Degrading and non-degrading sex in popular music: a content analysis.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe UK has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in western Europe. Although there is a large body of literature focusing on predictors of conception among this age group, almost all the work compares those young women who have become pregnant with their peers, regardless of whether or not their peers have experienced sexual intercourse.
objectiveTo compare 16-year-old young women who have become pregnant with their peers who also have experience of sexual intercourse, but who have not conceived.
designAnalysis of data from the baseline and follow-up surveys conducted as part of a trial of sex education. SETTING AND
participantsFemale school students aged 14-16 years from the East of Scotland. MAIN
resultsYoung age of self and partner, and non-use of contraception, all at first intercourse, are most strongly associated with pregnancy.
conclusionsThose who engage in sexual intercourse at a relatively young age will often have had more opportunity to become pregnant than those whose sexual debut comes later. Similarly, the fact that those who use contraception at first intercourse have been less likely to conceive than those who do not could reflect the overall patterns of contraceptive use: young women who have used contraception at each occasion of intercourse will have had less chance to conceive than those who have not. Having a young partner at first intercourse suggests that, if this pattern continues, the couple may lack the resources needed to prevent a pregnancy due to the immaturity of both partners.
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