Girls' Empowerment and Adolescent Pregnancy: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Background: 21 million girls get pregnant every year. Many initiatives are empowering girls. Various studies have looked at girl empowerment, however, there is contradicting evidence, and even less literature from developing countries. Methods: We searched articles published between January 2000 to January 2019. We followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and registered our protocol on the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews PROSPERO (CRD42019117414). Nine articles were selected for review. Quality appraisal was done using separate tools for qualitative studies, cohort and cross-sectional studies and randomized control trials. Results: Eight studies included educational empowerment, four studie

SUBMITTER: Nkhoma DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7084341 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature