School-based comprehensive sexuality education for prevention of adolescent pregnancy: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescent pregnancy is a global public health problem. Numerous approaches for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) delivery in schools have been implemented around the world. Previous reviews on CSE did not follow the International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education (ITGSE) because CSE is very diverse in terms of population, interventions, settings and outcomes. We conducted this scoping review to identify and map the evidence of school-based CSE for prevention of adolescent pregnancy with emphasis on adolescents' contraceptive use, unintended pregnancy and abortion.

Methods

We searched PubMed, CENTRAL, Scopus, ISI Web of Science, CINAHL, and WHO ICTRP to identify potential eligible studies from their inception to 4^th Nov 2023.We included ra

SUBMITTER: Myat SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10882910 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature