School-based interventions for improving contraceptive use in adolescents (review)

This paper is a systematic review of randomized controlled trials of school-based interventions intended to improve contraceptive use among adolescents. The authors found that effective interventions addressed both pregnancy and prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections and that successful strategies were generally multifaceted with multiple sessions. These findings suggest that interactive programs with varied activities are more likely than a didactic approach to engage adolescents and lead to behavior change.