Building an Evidence Base to Inform Interventions for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents: a Call for Rigorous Evaluation

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2012 Aug 18

PMID 22897541

Citations 12

Authors

Christina R Lachance

Barri B Burrus

Alicia Richmond Scott

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Abstract

Adolescent parents and their children are at increased risk for adverse short- and long-term health and social outcomes. Effective interventions are needed to support these young families. We studied the evidence base and found a dearth of rigorously evaluated programs. Strategies from successful interventions are needed to inform both intervention design and policies affecting these adolescents. The lack of rigorous evaluations may be attributable to inadequate emphasis on and sufficient funding for evaluation, as well as to challenges encountered by program evaluators working with this population. More rigorous program evaluations are urgently needed to provide scientifically sound guidance for programming and policy decisions. Evaluation lessons learned have implications for other vulnerable populations.

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