A school-based social-marketing intervention to promote sexual health in English secondary schools: the Positive Choices pilot cluster RCT

• Main Authors: Ruth Ponsford (Author), Sara Bragg (Author), Elizabeth Allen (Author), Nerissa Tilouche (Author), Rebecca Meiksin (Author), Lucy Emmerson (Author), Laura Van Dyck (Author), Charles Opondo (Author), Steve Morris (Author), Joanna Sturgess (Author), Elizabeth Brocklehurst (Author), Alison Hadley (Author), GJ Melendez-Torres (Author), Diana Elbourne (Author), Honor Young (Author), Maria Lohan (Author), Catherine Mercer (Author), Rona Campbell (Author), Chris Bonell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: NIHR Journals Library, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: The UK still has the highest rate of teenage births in western Europe. Teenagers are also the age group most likely to experience unplanned pregnancy, with around half of conceptions in those aged < 18 years ending in abortion. After controlling for prior disadvantage, teenage parenth...