Reorienting adolescent sexual and reproductive health research: reflections from an international conference

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dc.contributor.authorMichielsen, Kristien
dc.contributor.authorDe Meyer, Sara
dc.contributor.authorIvanova, Olena
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Ragnar
dc.contributor.authorDecat, Peter
dc.contributor.authorHerbiet, Céline
dc.contributor.authorKabiru, Caroline W.
dc.contributor.authorKetting, Evert
dc.contributor.authorLees, James
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-28T12:21:57Z
dc.date.available2018-06-28T12:21:57Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractOn December 4th 2014, the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) at Ghent University organized an international conference on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) and well-being. This viewpoint highlights two key messages of the conference - 1) ASRH promotion is broadening on different levels and 2) this broadening has important implications for research and interventions – that can guide this research field into the next decade. Adolescent sexuality has long been equated with risk and danger. However, throughout the presentations, it became clear that ASRH and related promotion efforts are broadening on different levels: from risk to well-being, from targeted and individual to comprehensive and structural, from knowledge transfer to innovative tools. However, indicators to measure adolescent sexuality that should accompany this broadening trend, are lacking. While public health related indicators (HIV/STIs, pregnancies) and their behavioral proxies (e.g. condom use, number of partners) are well developed and documented, there is a lack of consensus on indicators for the broader construct of adolescent sexuality, including sexual well-being and aspects of positive sexuality. Furthermore, the debate during the conference clearly indicated that experimental designs may not be the only appropriate study design to measure effectiveness of comprehensive, context-specific and long-term ASRH programmes, and that alternatives need to be identified and applied. Presenters at the conference clearly expressed the need to develop validated tools to measure different sub-constructs of adolescent sexuality and environmental factors. There was a plea to combine (quasi-)experimental effectiveness studies with evaluations of the development and implementation of ASRH promotion initiatives.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationMichielsen, K. et al. Reorienting adolescent sexual and reproductive health research: reflections from an international conference. Reproductive Health, 13(3)en_US
dc.identifier.issn1742-4755
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-016-0117-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3841
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_US
dc.rights© 2016 Michielsen et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectAdolescentsen_US
dc.subjectSexual and reproductive healthen_US
dc.subjectEvaluation researchen_US
dc.subjectSocial determinantsen_US
dc.titleReorienting adolescent sexual and reproductive health research: reflections from an international conferenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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