Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: Educational Strategies and Implementation Science for Public Health. Rotta I, ed. CIPF, 2023.
ISBN: 978-84-124195-1-1
High rates of adolescent pregnancy and associated sexual risk behaviors remain a major public health concern globally, with important health, social, and economic burdens. Different comprehensive and abstinence-only educational interventions have been developed and implemented in several settings in the past years to prevent or minimize the harms associated with this event. Nonetheless, the available evidence on their effectiveness and risk-benefit ratio is still inconsistent and scarce. Further well-designed and well-reported studies to help stakeholders enabling decision-making process within public policies for this population are needed. Moreover, the implementation of educational strategies in the real world should target the translation and extension of the benefits achieved in clinical trials. This book provides a broad review on the epidemiological and social impacts of adolescent pregnancy, summarizes the results of secondary studies that assessed the effectiveness or otherwise of educational interventions intended to reduce this outcome, identifies some gaps on the literature over this theme by means of an evidence gap map, and finally discusses the implementation science in health education.
Keywords: Health Promotion; Pregnancy; Adolescent
Editors
Inajara Rotta: PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil) with internship at University of Lisbon, Portugal. Professor at the Department of Pharmacy (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil).
Table of contents
PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE: A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
Marília Berlofa Visacri, Denis Satoshi Komoda, Isabela Pina Meza, Maryana Albino Clavero.
EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY
Inajara Rotta, Roberto Pontarolo, Aline Teotonio Rodrigues, Isabela Pina Meza.
EFFECTIVENESS OF STRATEGIES TO DELAY SEXUAL ACTIVITY ONSET TO PREVENT PREGNANCY IN THE ADOLESCENCE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Inajara Rotta, Aline Teotonio Rodrigues, Brígida Dias Fernandes, Dênis Satoshi Komoda, Fernanda Stumpf Tonin, Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, Isabela Pina Meza, Maryana Albino Clavero, Tácio de Mendonça Lima
WHAT ARE THE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES ON STRATEGIES FOR DELAYING SEXUAL ACTIVITY ONSET TO PREVENT PREGNANCY IN THE ADOLESCENCE? AN EVIDENCE GAP MAP
Helena Hiemisch Lobo Borba, Astrid Wiens, Patricia Melo Aguiar.
IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE IN HEALTH EDUCATION
Brígida Dias Fernandes, Marília Berlofa Visacri, Patricia Melo Aguiar, Tácio de Mendonça Lima.