Adolescence : Guidelines, reviews, epidemiology

Adolescence

Guidelines, reviews, epidemiology

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Adolescent contraception

Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  - Describing the roles of civil society organizations in sustaining adolescents' family planning programs in nine Asian and African countries [2025]
Australia
- Australian Journal of General Practice
  - Contraception options during pubertal transition: Risks, benefits and considerations [2024]
Benin
- BMJ Open
  - Modern contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women in Benin: a mixed-methods study [2022]
Brazil
- Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  - Youth, gender and reproductive justice: health inequities in family planning in Brazil’s Unified Health System [2021]
Canada
- Canadian Paediatric Society
  - Universal access to no-cost contraception for youth in Canada [2019]
  - Contraceptive care for Canadian youth [2018]
- PLoS ONE
  - Newcomer youth's access to contraception care in Canada: A scoping review of qualitative evidence [2025]
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- BMC Women's Health
  - Determinants of the use of contraceptive methods by adolescents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: results of a cross-sectional survey [2022]
- Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
  - A retrospective analysis of the trends in modern contraceptive use among adolescents and young women (15-24 years) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last two decades [2023]
East Africa
- Reproductive Health
  - Pathways to increased coverage: an analysis of time trends in contraceptive need and use among adolescents and young women in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda [2017]
Ethiopia
- BioMed Research International
  - Adolescents' Contraceptive Uptake in Ethiopia: A Meta-Analysis [2022]
- Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  - Unmet need for family planning and associated factors among adolescent girls and young women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey [2023]
- Reproductive Health
  - Contraceptive use among sexually active female adolescents in Ethiopia: trends and determinants from national demographic and health surveys [2021]
Ghana
- BMC Women's Health
  - Prevalence and correlates of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana [2015]
- SSM - Population Health
  - Trends and determinants of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana: Analysis of 2003–2014 Demographic and Health Surveys [2020]
High-income countries
- International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  - Barriers to contraception access and use among youth: A scoping review in high-income countries [2026]
India
- Reproductive Health
  - Contraception for married adolescents (15-19 years) in India: insights from the National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4) [2022]
International
- Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  - Improving access to and use of contraception by adolescents: What progress has been made, what lessons have been learnt, and what are the implications for action? [2020]
- BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  - Use of contraceptives, empowerment and agency of adolescent girls and young women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
- Contraception
  - Contraceptive values and preferences of adolescents and young adults: A systematic review [2022]
- Fertility and Sterility
  - Awareness, knowledge, and misconceptions of adolescents and young people regarding long-acting reversible contraceptives: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  - Research Review: Are sampling biases masking long-term effects of hormonal contraceptive use in adolescence on risk for depression? [2025]
- Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology
  - Contraception for Adolescents [2020]
- PLoS ONE
  - Contraceptive use and needs among adolescent women aged 15–19: Regional and global estimates and projections from 1990 to 2030 from a Bayesian hierarchical modelling study [2021]
- Reproductive Health
  - A never-before opportunity to strengthen investment and action on adolescent contraception, and what we must do to make full use of it [2017]
- Save the Children International
  - Global Learning Agenda on Adolescent Contraception Access and Choice 2025 [2025]
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  - Pharmacies: an important source of contraception for some adolescents, but not a panacea for all [2023]
Israel
- Israel Medical Association Journal
  - Improving contraceptive care for minors in Israel: practice, policy, and training gaps among OBGYNs [2024]
Jordan
- Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  - Landscape analysis of family planning research, programmes and policies targeting young people in Jordan: stakeholder assessment and systematic review [2020]
Kenya, Uganda
- Reproductive Health
  - A comparative human rights analysis of laws and policies for adolescent contraception in Uganda and Kenya [2022]
Low and middle income countries
- BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  - Potentials and pitfalls of including pharmacies as youth-friendly contraception providers in low- and middle-income countries [2020]
- Contraception
  - Interventions to improve adolescents' contraceptive behaviors in low- and middle-income countries: a review of the evidence base [2014]
- Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  - Trends in contraceptive method mix among adolescents and youth aged 15-24 in low- and middle-income countries [2023]
- Frontiers in Public Health
  - What are the sources of contraceptives for married and unmarried adolescents: Health services or friends? Analysis of 59 low- and middle-income countries [2023]
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  - Which Structural Interventions for Adolescent Contraceptive Use Have Been Evaluated in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? [2022]
  - Structural Interventions to Enable Adolescent Contraceptive Use in LMICs: A Mid-Range Theory to Support Intervention Development and Evaluation [2022]
- JAMA Network Open
  - Contraceptive Use in Adolescent Girls and Adult Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2020]
- Journal of Global Health
  - The impact of underuse of modern methods of contraception among adolescents with unintended pregnancies in 12 low- and middle-income countries [2019]
- PLOS Global Public Health
  - Can cash transfer interventions increase contraceptive use and reduce adolescent birth and pregnancy in low and middle income countries? A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
- Reproductive Health
  - Contraception for adolescents in low and middle income countries: needs, barriers, and access [2014]
Malawi
- Malawi Medical Journal
  - Quality of facility-based family planning services for adolescents in Malawi: Findings from a national census of health facilities [2016]
Mali
- Demographic and Health Surveys
  - Modern Contraceptive Use among Youth in Mali [2020]
Mexico
- International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  - Comparison of family-planning service quality reported by adolescents and young adult women in Mexico [2016]
- Journal of Religion and Health
  - Factors Associated with Support for Adolescent Access to Contraception Among Mexican Catholic Parents [2021]
- Maternal and Child Health Journal
  - Adolescents and Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Lessons from Mexico [2016]
Niger
- Reproductive Health
  - Contraceptive decision-making and its association with contraceptive use among married adolescent girls in Niger [2025]
Nigeria
- African Health Sciences
  - Discontinuation of contraceptives among adolescent girls aged 15-19 years in Nigeria: a descriptive analysis [2022]
- Global Health: Science and Practice
  - Improving Contraceptive Service Quality and Accessibility for Adolescents and Youth Through Proprietary Patent Medicine Vendors in Four Nigerian States [2024]
Norway
- BMC Public Health
  - Use of contraception during first sexual intercourse among Norwegian adolescents: a national cross-sectional study [2024]
Republic of Guinea
- BMC Public Health
  - Trends in contraceptive use, unmet need and associated factors of modern contraceptive use among urban adolescents and young women in Guinea [2020]
Republic of Korea
- Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
  - Recent trends in contraceptive use among Korean adolescents: Results from a nationwide survey from year 2013 to 2015 [2016]
Rwanda
- BMC Women's Health
  - Utilisation of modern contraceptives by sexually active adolescent girls in Rwanda: a nationwide cross-sectional study [2022]
- Ministry of Health Rwanda
  - National Family Planning and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (FP/ASRH) Strategic Plan (2018–2024) [2018]
South Africa
- African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
  - How do South African policies address provision of contraception among adolescents? [2024]
- Journal of Adolescent Health
  - An Analysis of Adolescent Content in South Africa's Contraception Policy Using a Human Rights Framework [2015]
- Journal of Community Systems for Health
  - Provision of contraception to adolescents in primary healthcare clinics in South Africa: Perspectives of healthcare practitioners [2025]
South Asia
- BMC Women's Health
  - Socioeconomic inequalities in contraceptive use among female adolescents in south Asian countries: a decomposition analysis [2022]
Spain
- Reproductive Health
  - Trends in the use of oral contraceptives among adolescents and young women in Spain [2016]
Sub-Saharan Africa
- BMC Public Health
  - The use of condoms and other birth control methods among sexually active school-going adolescents in nine sub-Saharan African countries [2022]
- Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  - Access to quality contraceptive counselling among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa [2024]
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  - Mapping Evidence Regarding Decision-Making on Contraceptive Use among Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review [2023]
- Journal of Adolescent Health
  - Who Meets the Contraceptive Needs of Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa? [2017]
- PLOS Global Public Health
  - Effect and cost-effectiveness of human-centred design-based approaches to increase adolescent uptake of modern contraceptives in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania: Population-based, quasi-experimental studies [2023]
- PLoS ONE
  - Prevalence and factors associated with contraceptive use among sexually active adolescent girls in 25 sub-Saharan African countries [2024]
  - Predictors of unmet need for contraception among adolescent girls and young women in selected high fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel mixed effects analysis [2020]
- Reproductive Health
  - Comparing the reasons for contraceptive discontinuation between parenting adolescents and young women in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis [2023]
  - Long-acting reversible contraceptives use among adolescent girls and young women in high fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa [2022]
  - Wealth-related inequalities in demand for family planning satisfied among married and unmarried adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
Sweden
- BMC Public Health
  - Reimbursement of hormonal contraceptives and the frequency of induced abortion among teenagers in Sweden [2014]
Tanzania
- BMJ Open
  - Trends and factors associated with modern contraceptive use among sexually active female youths in Tanzania, 2004-2022 [2025]
- PLOS Global Public Health
  - Trends and determinants of unmet need for modern contraception among adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania, 2004-2016 [2024]
- Women's Health
  - Modern contraceptive discontinuation and associated factors among adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania: An analysis of a nationally representative data [2025]
Togo
- Frontiers in Public Health
  - Unmet needs for modern contraceptive methods among sexually active adolescents and young women in Togo: a nationwide cross-sectional study [2023]
Uganda
- BMC Women's Health
  - Prevalence and factors associated with modern contraceptives utilization among female adolescents in Uganda [2021]
- npj Women's Health
  - Contraception decision-making autonomy among adolescent girls and young women in Uganda [2025]
- PLoS ONE
  - How have unintended pregnancies and contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women changed in Uganda? Evidence from the 2014 and 2019 PMA national surveys [2025]
United Kingdom
- College of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
  - Young People
United States
- Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
  - Long-Acting Reversible Contraception for Adolescents: A Review of Practices to Support Better Communication, Counseling, and Adherence [2023]
- American Academy of Pediatrics
  - Contraceptive Counseling and Methods for Adolescents: Clinical Report [2025]
  - Contraception for Adolescents: Policy Statement [2025]
  - Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Specific Issues for Adolescents [2020]
  - Contraception for Adolescents [2014]
  - The Importance of Access to Contraception
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  - Adolescents and Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Implants and Intrauterine Devices [2018]
  - Counseling Adolescents About Contraception [2017]
- American Journal of Public Health
  - US "Safety Net" Clinics Provide Access to Effective Contraception for Adolescents and Young Women, 2017-2019 [2022]
- Contemporary OB/GYN
  - How to help adolescents choose the right contraceptive [2024]
- Contraception
  - Race-ethnicity and sex disparities in the use of pregnancy prevention methods among U.S. high school students [2025]
- Guttmacher Institute
  - Minors’ Access to Contraceptive Services [2023]
  - Ensuring Adolescents’ Ability to Obtain Confidential Family Planning Services in Title X [2018]
- Open Access Journal of Contraception
  - Teaching About Contraception: Adolescent Attitudes Surrounding Sexual Education [2023]
- PLoS ONE
  - The role of sex education in withdrawal use: Prevalence and correlates among a nationally representative sample of adolescents and young adults [2026]
- Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
  - Improving Knowledge About, Access to, and Utilization of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Among Adolescents and Young Adults [2017]
- Women's Health
  - Confidentiality and privacy considerations for adolescents receiving contraceptive health services via telemedicine: A narrative review [2024]
Western countries
- EClinicalMedicine
  - Contraception and abortion information and care in community pharmacy for adolescents: a systematic review [2025]
- Frontiers in Reproductive Health
  - Influence of mental health conditions and symptoms on contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women: a scoping review [2025]
WHO
- World Health Organization
  - Contraception within the context of adolescents’ sexual and reproductive lives [2021]
  - Adolescent contraceptive use: glossary of terms [2016]
  - Contraception in adolescence [2004]
Zambia
- BMC Women's Health
  - Rural-urban correlates of modern contraceptives utilization among adolescents in Zambia: a national cross-sectional survey [2022]
  - Patterns, trends, and factors associated with contraceptive use among adolescent girls in Zambia (1996 to 2014): a multilevel analysis [2020]
- Journal of Public Health in Africa
  - Factors contributing to changes in contraceptive use among adolescent girls in Zambia: a decomposition analysis [2023]
Zimbabwe
- BMJ Open
  - Estimating abortion incidence and unintended pregnancy among adolescents in Zimbabwe, 2016: a cross-sectional study [2020]
{Related topics}
- Topic
  - Long-acting reversible contraception
  - Intrauterine device (IUD)
  - Family planning
  - Emergency contraception
  - Barrier contraceptive methods
  - Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
  - Adolescent pregnancy
  - Adolescent health

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