Trial reportBMC public health2013
Community embedded reproductive health interventions for adolescents in Latin America: development and evaluation of a complex multi-centre intervention.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01722084 (Community-embedded Reproductive Health Care for Adolescents in Latin America), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Community-embedded Reproductive Health Care for Adolescents in Latin America (CERCA).
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence and barriers to the utilization of adolescent and youth-friendly health services in Ghana: systematic review and meta-analysis.Reproductive health · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of consumers and health providers working in partnership on health services planning, delivery and evaluation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia: application of intervention mapping.BMC public health · 2016Trial
- Factors influencing adoption of sexual and reproductive health intervention for adolescents in Ebonyi, Nigeria.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Female genital mutilation: trends, economic burden of delay and basis for public health interventions.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- To what extent did implementing a community-embedded intervention align with the goals and roles of stakeholders in adolescent sexual and reproductive health?Reproductive health · 2024Article
- Just in case: undergraduate students identifying and mitigating barriers to their sexual and reproductive health needs.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Review
- Structural Interventions to Enable Adolescent Contraceptive Use in LMICs: A Mid-Range Theory to Support Intervention Development and Evaluation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Which Structural Interventions for Adolescent Contraceptive Use Have Been Evaluated in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Strengths and challenges of a school-based sexual and reproductive health program for adolescents in Chile.PloS one · 2022Article
- Preconception Care Program for Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using Intervention Mapping: A Protocol for Program Development.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Applying the results based management framework to the CERCA multi-component project in adolescent sexual and reproductive health: a retrospective analysis.Reproductive health · 2018Article
- Fertility rates and perinatal outcomes of adolescent pregnancies: a retrospective population-based study.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2017Article
- Lessons learnt from the CERCA Project, a multicomponent intervention to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health in three Latin America countries: a qualitative post-hoc evaluation.Evaluation and program planning · 2016Article
- Sexual onset and contraceptive use among adolescents from poor neighbourhoods in Managua, Nicaragua.The European journal of contraception & reproductive health care : the official journal of the European Society of Contraception · 2015Article
- Improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Latin America: reflections from an International Congress.Reproductive health · 2015Article
- Factorial validation of the Attitudes toward Women Scale for Adolescents (AWSA) in assessing sexual behaviour patterns in Bolivian and Ecuadorian adolescents.Global health action · 2014Article
- The unintended consequences of sex education: an ethnography of a development intervention in Latin America.Anthropology & medicine · 2014Article
- Application of Intervention Mapping to develop a community-based health promotion pre-pregnancy intervention for adolescent girls in rural South Africa: Project Ntshembo (Hope).BMC public health · 2014Article
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13 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundAdolescents in Latin America are at high risk for unwanted and unplanned pregnancies, which often result in unsafe abortions or poor maternal health outcomes. Both young men and women in the region face an increased risk of sexually transmitted infections due to inadequate sexual and reproductive health information, services and counselling. To date, many adolescent health programmes have targeted a single determinant of sexual and reproductive health. However, recent evidence suggests that the complexity of sexual and reproductive health issues demands an equally multi-layered and comprehensive approach.
methodsThis article describes the development, implementation and evaluation design of the community-embedded reproductive health care for adolescents (CERCA) study in three Latin American cities: Cochabamba (Bolivia), Cuenca (Ecuador) and Managua (Nicaragua). Project CERCA's research methodology builds on existing methodological frameworks, namely: action research, community based participatory research and intervention-mapping.The interventions in each country address distinct target groups (adolescents, parents, local authorities and health providers) and seek improvement of the following sexual health behaviours: communication about sexuality, sexual and reproductive health information-seeking, access to sexual and reproductive health care and safe sexual relationships.In Managua, we implemented a randomised controlled study, and in Cochabamba and Cuenca we adopted a non-randomised controlled study to evaluate the effectiveness of Project CERCA interventions, in addition to a process evaluation. DISCUSSION: This research will result in a methodological framework that will contribute to the improved design and implementation of future adolescent sexual and reproductive health interventions.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01722084).
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