Current Research
Welcome to Current Research
In this section, you will find a glossary of research terms, authored papers, and summaries of current journal articles related to adolescent pregnancy prevention.
Research Glossary
Authored Papers
- BDI Logic Models: A Useful Tool for Designing, Strengthening and Evaluating Programs to Reduce Adolescent Sexual Risk-Taking, Pregnancy, HIV and Other STDs by Doug Kirby, Ph.D.
- Designing an Online Course for an Educational Web Site: a Step-by-Step Approach
- Parent-Child Connectedness
- A Logic Model of Parent-Child Connectedness:
Using the Behavior-Determinant-Intervention (BDI) Logic Model to Identify Parent Behaviors Necessary for Connectedness with Teen Children - Parent-Child Connectedness: New Interventions for Teen Pregnancy Prevention
- Parent-Child Connectedness: Voices of African-American and Latino Parents and Teens — findings from a 2004 focus group study
- Summary of Parent-Child Connectedness: Findings from an on-line survey of practitioners, including charts of results
- Comprehensive Literature Review on Parent-Child Connectedness: Implications for Research, Intervention, and Positive Impacts on Adolescent Health (a pdf file)
- Complete Bibliography on Parent-Child Connectedness, A-L
- Complete Bibliography on Parent-Child Connectedness, M-Z (See also the January 2004 Topic in Brief for more information on this topic.)
- A Logic Model of Parent-Child Connectedness:
- Teens and Older Partners by Michael Males, Ph.D.
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities & Cultural Competency in Teen Pregnancy, STD & HIV Prevention by Barbara W. Sugland, MPH, ScD
- ReCAPP's 2004 User Survey: Summary of Findings
- Graphic Presentation of Some Findings (a Flash document)
Bibliographies
- Coalitions and Preventing Teen Pregnancy
- Latino Adolescents and Reproductive Health
- Parent-Child Connectedness Bibliography A-K
- Parent-Child Connectedness Bibliography, L-Z
Research Summaries
- A Health Belief Model-Social Learning Theory Approach to Adolescents' Fertility Control: Findings from a Controlled Field Trial - Health Belief Model
- A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a School-based, Multi-faceted AIDS Education Program in the Elementary Grades - Working with Young Children (K-3)
- Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexual Risk-Taking Among Sexually Abused Girls - Child Sexual Abuse
- Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: A Review of Interventions and Programs - Pregnancy Prevention
- Age Differences Between Sexual Partners in the United States - Teens and Older Partners
- Body-Image and Eating Disturbances Predict Onset of Depression Among Female Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study - Promoting Health Body Image
- College Students' Attitudes Regarding Vaccination to Prevent Genital Herpes - Advances in Reproductive Health
- Date Rape Among Adolescents and Youth Adults - Sexual Assault
- Decision Making for Pregnant Adolescents: Applying Reasoned Action Theory to Research and Treatment
- Early Sexual Initiation: The Role of Peer Norms - Changing Social Norms
- Exploring Associations in Developmental Trends of Adolescent Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behavior in a High-Risk Population - Pregnancy Options
- Factors Predicting Safe-Sex Talk and Condom Use in Early Sexual Relationships - Condoms
- Families Matter: A Research Synthesis of Family Influences on Adolescent Pregnancy - Peer Education
- High Prevalence and Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Urban Adolescent Females Despite Moderate Risk Behaviors - Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Impact Evaluation of the "Not Me, Not Now" Abstinence-Oriented, Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Communications Program - Media Literacy
- Is Emergency Contraception (EC) Safe? - Emergency Contraception
- Mothers' Influence on Teen Sex: Connections that Promote Postponing Sexual Intercourse - Parent-Child Connectedness
- Older Boyfriends and Girlfriends Increase Risk of Sexual Initiation in Young Adolescents - Teens and Older Partners
- Patterns of Consultation Among Adolescent Minors Obtaining an Abortion - Pregnancy Options
- Peer Effects on Adolescent Sexual Debut and Pregnancy: An Analysis of a National Survey of Adolescent Girls - Friendship
- Peer Potential: Making the Most of How Teens Influence Each Other - Peers
- Personal and Ethnic Identity, Values, and Self Esteem Among Black and Latino Adolescent Girls - Girls' Development
- Piecing Together the Puzzle of Teenage Childbearing (September 1999) - Teen Parents
- Preventing Teen Pregnancy: Youth Development and After-School Programs - Wait for Sex
- Reason for Hope: A Review of Research on Adolescent Religiosity and Sexual Behavior - Communities of Faith
- Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy: Programs That Work - Evidence-Based Programs
- Room to Grow: Improving Services for Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers in School Settings - Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers
- Secondary Sexual Characteristics and Menses in Young Girls Seen in Office Practice - Puberty
- Secondary Sexual Characteristics in Boys - Puberty
- Self Esteem as a Predictor of Initiation of Coitus in Early Adolescents - Self-Esteem
- Sex Education Programs for People With Mental Retardation - Developmental Disabilities
- Sexual Intercourse, Abuse and Pregnancy Among Adolescent Women: Does Sexual Orientation Make a Difference? - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth
- Sexuality in Fifth and Sixth Grades in U.S. Public Schools - Abstinence
- Short-term impact of Safer Choices: A multicomponent, school-based HIV, other STD, and pregnancy prevention programs - Evidence-Based Programs
- SIECUS study on 1998-1999 Sexuality Education Controversies in the United States - Managing Controversy
- The Association of Sexual Behaviors with Socioeconomic Status, Family Structure, and Race/Ethnicity among U.S. Adolescents - Building Resiliency Through Culture
- The Impact of Abstinence-only Programs - Abstinence
- The Trade-Off Between Hormonal Contraceptives and Condoms Among Adolescents - Pregnancy Options
- Working with Young People — Towards an Agenda for Sexual Health - Positive Sexuality
