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Teen Pregnancy

Teenage pregnancy is frequently associated with problems for the adolescent parents and their children as well as more widespread social and economic consequences. RAND's research on teen pregnancy includes studies related to sex education, prevention and birth control, infant low birth weight, and educational options for teen moms, as well as groundbreaking research on the link between exposure to sexual content on television and teen pregnancy.

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Journal Article

Jun 20, 2023

Adolescents' Contraceptive Use with School-Discordant Partners: Exploring Individual- and Relationship-Level Characteristics

Characteristics of romantic relationships and contraceptive use were examined among 1,043 female and 961 male Add Health respondents. Females (but not males) were less likely to use condom with partners not from their schools or older partners.
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Sep 13, 2022

Landmark Women's Reproductive Health Survey Shows Need for Improvements in DoD Reproductive Health Care

Improvements to reproductive health care services provided by the U.S. Department of Defense would allow DoD to better meet the needs of female service members and address the high rate of unintended pregnancies among active-duty service women.
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Oct 13, 2021

Cost Analysis of a Randomized Trial of Getting to Outcomes Implementation Support for a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Offered in Boys and Girls Clubs in Alabama and Georgia

This study estimated the cost of adding Getting To Outcomes implementation support to a teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection prevention evidence-based program called Making Proud Choices in 32 Boys and Girls Clubs in Alabama and Georgia.
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Dec 5, 2017

A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Getting To Outcomes' Impact on Sexual Health Outcomes in Community-Based Settings

Getting to Outcomes, an implementation support intervention, can strengthen evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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Oct 31, 2016

Schooling, Marriage, and Age at First Birth in Madagascar

The low school attainment, early marriage, and low age at first birth of females are major policy concerns in less developed countries. This study jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age, and age at first birth among females aged 12-25 in Madagascar.
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Aug 30, 2016

Cost Analysis of an Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program In-School Model Site

This report analyzes the costs to implement the Children's Aid Society's Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program in-school model for one year for 880 students at one school district in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Aug 5, 2016

New Tools Help Communities Deliver Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs

Many organizations do not use programs backed by research or do not implement them well even when they do. A new web-based tool can help community leaders better plan and run their pregnancy prevention programs and achieve more positive outcomes.
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Jul 21, 2016

Getting to Outcomes Guide for Teen Pregnancy Prevention

This Getting To Outcomes (GTO) guide is designed to help community organizations plan, evaluate, and improve the quality of their teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) programs.
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Jun 30, 2016

Long-term Effect of Exposure to a Friend's Adolescent Childbirth on Fertility, Education, and Earnings

Interventions that expose adolescents to the reality of teen motherhood may be an effective way of reducing the rates of teen childbearing and improving schooling.
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Jun 21, 2016

A Novel Test of the GTO Implementation Support Intervention in Low Resource Settings: Year 1 Findings and Challenges

Boys & Girls Club sites that used the Getting to Outcomes implementation support tool had greater capacity to run the Making Proud Choices program, but youth sexual health outcomes were no better at sites that used the tool versus those that did not.
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Nov 6, 2015

Policy Barriers to Best Practices: The Impact of Restrictive State Regulations on Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives

Long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods of birth control, which include the intrauterine device and subdermal implant, are highly effective, very safe, preferable to women, and cost effective. But some states' contraceptive policies create direct and indirect barriers to LARC use.
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Feb 18, 2013

'Implementation Science' May Help Providers Adopt New Treatments Despite Real-World Constraints

A new field called implementation science addresses the issue of how to best support providers to take up new, research-proven treatments and implement them well. A RAND study will test how well Boys & Girls Clubs carry out a program proven to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, with and without an intervention called Getting To Outcomes.

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