Abstract
The goal of this project was to systematically review and compile evidence on interventions
in low- and middle-income countries, which targeted three adverse health-related outcomes
for young people (ages 10–24): (1) early pregnancy and repeat pregnancy; (2) child
marriage; and (3) sexually transmitted infections including human immunodeficiency
virus. We searched the gray and published literature to identify interventions and
developed a scoring system to assess whether these interventions and their evaluations
were of high quality. The three review articles in this volume focus on behavioral
outcomes and provide a summary of interventions and evaluations that were both successful
and unsuccessful in their impact on the targeted outcomes. This commentary provides
the details of the methodology that are common across all three review articles.
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Footnotes
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Disclaimer: Publication of this article was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The opinions or views expressed in this supplement are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the funder.
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© 2016 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.
