The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural interventions for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections in young people aged 13-19: a systematic review and economic evaluation
Shepherd J, Kavanagh J, Picot J, Cooper K, Harden A, Barnett-Page E, Jones J, Clegg A, Hartwell D, Frampton GK, Price A
Record ID 32010000105
English
Authors' recommendations:
Study found that school-based behavioural interventions for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections in young people can bring about improvements in knowledge and increased self-efficacy, but the interventions did not significantly influence sexual risk-taking behaviour or infection rates
Details
Project Status:
Completed
URL for project:
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1666
Year Published:
2010
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
- Adolescent
- Adolescent Behavior
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Female
- Male
- Risk Reduction Behavior
- Safe Sex
- Schools
- Sex Education
- Young Adult
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Contact
Organisation Name:
NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme
Contact Address:
NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Copyright:
2010 Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO
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