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

Adolescent Health Interventions: Conclusions, Evidence Gaps, and Research Priorities.

Rehana A Salam, Jai K Das, Zohra S Lassi, 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 69 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
69citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
19.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 148 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Girls' Empowerment and Adolescent Pregnancy: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  14. Cost-Effectiveness of Youth-Friendly Health Services in Health Post Settings in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Rehana A SalamDivision of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Jai K DasDivision of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Zohra S LassiRobinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Zulfiqar A BhuttaCentre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Electronic address: zulfiqar.bhutta@sickkids.ca.
Aga Khan University · PKHospital for Sick Children · CAUniversity of Adelaide · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adolescent health care is challenging compared to that of children and adults, due to their rapidly evolving physical, intellectual, and emotional development. This paper is the concluding paper for a series of reviews to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for improving adolescent health and well-being. In this paper, we summarize the evidence evaluated in the previous papers and suggest areas where there is enough existing evidence to recommend implementation and areas where further research is needed to reach consensus. Potentially effective interventions for adolescent health and well-being include interventions for adolescent sexual and reproductive health, micronutrient supplementation, nutrition interventions for pregnant adolescents, interventions to improve vaccine uptake among adolescents, and interventions for substance abuse. Majority of the evidence for improving immunization coverage, substance abuse, mental health, and accidents and injury prevention comes from high-income countries. Future studies should specifically be targeted toward the low- and middle-income countries with long term follow-up and standardized and validated measurement instruments to maximize comparability of results. Assessment of effects by gender and socioeconomic status is also important as there may be differences in the effectiveness of certain interventions. It is also important to recognize ideal delivery platforms that can augment the coverage of proven adolescent health-specific interventions and provide an opportunity to reach hard-to-reach and disadvantaged population groups.

Indexed as

Adolescent healthAdolescent immunizationAdolescent nutritionAdolescent sexual healthInjury preventionMental healthSubstance abuse

Identifiers

PMID27664599
PMCPMC5026678
OpenAlexW2521211380

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Registered trials

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