Reproductive health needs of recently incarcerated youth during community reentry: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Youth involved in the juvenile justice system have high reproductive health needs and, on exiting detention, face the challenging transition of reentry. We conducted a systematic literature review to describe what is known about youths' reproductive health needs during community reentry after incarceration.

Methods

We searched PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar for articles containing key words with the concepts 'child or adolescent', 'incarcerated' and 'reentry'. In the search, we defined the concept of 'reentry' as within 1 month prior to release (to include interventions involving pre-release planning) and up to 18 months after release from incarceration.

Results

Our search yielded 2187 articles. After applying all exclusion criteria, 1

SUBMITTER: Barnert E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8262509 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature