SynthesisAmerican journal of preventive medicine2018
Youth-Friendly Family Planning Services for Young People: A Systematic Review Update.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Stated preferences of adolescents and young adults for sexual and reproductive health services in Africa: a systematic review.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Pooled it
- Client Preferences for Contraceptive Counseling: A Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2018Pooled it
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- Wealth-based inequalities in family planning and perinatal coverage among adolescent and young women: analyses of national surveys from Latin America and the Caribbean.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Article
- Adolescents' and Young Adults' Receipt of Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, practice and factors associated with the prevalence of modern contraceptives use among women from historically marginalized community in Rwanda: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Young People's Perceptions of Why Sexually Active Peers May Not Use Prescribed Contraception.Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology · 2025Article
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- Unfulfilled and method-specific contraceptive preferences among reproductive-aged contraceptive users in Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.Health services research · 2024Observational
- Characterizing models of adolescent and youth-friendly health services in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.International journal of adolescent medicine and health · 2024Article
- Preferences in adolescents and young people's sexual and reproductive health services in Nigeria: a discrete choice experiment.Health economics review · 2024Article
- The Effect of School-Linked Module-Based Friendly-Health Education on Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge, Guji Zone, Ethiopia - Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2024Article
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- Contraceptive access experiences and perspectives of Mexican-origin youth: a binational qualitative study.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2023Article
- Exploring Upward and Downward Provider Biases in Family Planning: The Case of Parity.Global health, science and practice · 2023Article
- Development of an Implementation Blueprint to Scale-Up Contraception Care for Adolescents with Psychiatric Conditions in a Pediatric Hospital.Global implementation research and applications · 2023Article
- Early discontinuation of long-acting reversible contraceptives and associated factors among women discontinuing long-acting reversible contraceptives at national referral hospital, Kampala-Uganda; a cross-sectional study.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
contextYouth-friendly family planning services may improve youth reproductive health outcomes. A systematic review conducted in 2011 was updated in 2016 to incorporate recent data examining the effects of youth-friendly family planning services on reproductive health outcomes and the facilitators and barriers facing young people in accessing family planning services. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: PubMed, POPLINE, EMBASE, and other databases were used to identify relevant articles published from March 2011 through April 2016. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS: Eighteen studies met inclusion criteria and were added to 19 studies from the review conducted in 2011. Of these, seven assessed the effect of youth-friendly services on outcomes: two showed a positive effect on reducing teen pregnancy, three on contraceptive use, and three on knowledge and patient satisfaction (not mutually exclusive). Facilitators or barriers were described in 32 studies. However, none were RCTs and most were at high risk for bias due to selection, self-report, and recall bias among others.
conclusionsThe studies in this review suggest some positive effects of youth-friendly family planning services on reproductive health outcomes, but the need for more rigorous research persists. This review identified numerous factors relevant to young people's access to family planning services, reaffirming findings from the initial review: young people value confidentiality, supportive provider interaction, specialized provider training, and the removal of logistic barriers. Further, it illuminates the importance young people place on receiving comprehensive, client-centered family planning counseling. These findings should be considered when developing, implementing, and evaluating reproductive health services for young people. THEME INFORMATION: This article is part of a theme issue entitled Updating the Systematic Reviews Used to Develop the U.S. Recommendations for Providing Quality Family Planning Services, which is sponsored by the Office of Population Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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