ArticleChild abuse & neglect2026
Are non-parental supportive adults associated with indicators of contraceptive access for youth with child welfare involvement?
Article in Child abuse & neglect, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundYouth with child welfare involvement experience persistent disparities in reproductive health, including limited access to contraception, and little is known about factors that promote access to care.
objectiveAt two points in adolescence, we examined whether: a) the presence of a non-parental supportive adult was associated with indicators of contraceptive access (i.e., receipt of contraceptive information/education and knowing how to access contraception); b) associations existed within demographic subgroups; and c) associations varied by type of supportive adult. PARTICIPANTS AND
settingParticipants included 245 youth with open child welfare cases due to maltreatment within the family when entering 8th or 9th grade.
methodsParticipants were interviewed in 8th/9th grade (Time 1; T1) and 2.5 years later (Time 2; T2). Chi-square tests examined associations among the full sample, within demographic subgroups, and by type of supportive adult.
resultsYouth with non-parental supportive adults were more likely to know how to access contraception at T1 (d = 0.28, p = .047) and receive contraceptive information/education at T2 (d = 0.38, p = .009). Subgroup patterns suggested that supportive adults had a particularly strong relationship with indicators of access for males and for ethnic/racial minority youth in mid-adolescence (ds = 0.54-0.73, ps < 0.05). Helping professional supportive adults were most consistently associated with indicators of contraceptive access (ds = 0.33-0.39, ps < 0.05).
conclusionsNon-parental supportive adult relationships may represent a protective factor for promoting contraceptive access broadly for youth with child welfare involvement and may be particularly helpful for subgroups experiencing even deeper gaps in access (e.g., males, minoritized youth).
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.