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ReviewThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2016

Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review of Potential Interventions.

Rehana A Salam, Anadil Faqqah, Nida Sajjad, Zohra S Lassi, Jai K Das, Miriam Kaufman, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Review in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 122 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Rehana A SalamDivision of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Anadil FaqqahDivision of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Nida SajjadDivision of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Zohra S LassiRobinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Jai K DasDivision of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Miriam KaufmanDivision of Adolescent Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Zulfiqar A BhuttaCentre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Electronic address: zulfiqar.bhutta@sickkids.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adolescents have special sexual and reproductive health needs (whether or not they are sexually active or married). This review assesses the impact of interventions to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health (including the interventions to prevent female genital mutilation/cutting [FGM/C]) and to prevent intimate violence. Our review findings suggest that sexual and reproductive health education, counseling, and contraceptive provision are effective in increasing sexual knowledge, contraceptive use, and decreasing adolescent pregnancy. Among interventions to prevent FGM/C, community mobilization and female empowerment strategies have the potential to raise awareness of the adverse health consequences of FGM/C and reduce its prevalence; however, there is a need to conduct methodologically rigorous intervention evaluations. There was limited and inconclusive evidence for the effectiveness of interventions to prevent intimate partner violence. Further studies with rigorous designs, longer term follow-up, and standardized and validated measurement instruments are required to maximize comparability of results. Future efforts should be directed toward scaling-up evidence-based interventions to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health in low- and middle-income countries, sustain the impacts over time, and ensure equitable outcomes.

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Adolescent sexual healthContraceptionGenital mutilationReproductive healthSexual health educationTeenage pregnancy

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PMID27664592
PMCPMC5026684

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