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Evaluation of sexual health interventions
EDITOR,--Ann Oakley and colleagues rightly emphasise the need for rigorous evaluation of sexual health interventions.1 Much early sex is unplanned, and, even though it is encouraging that many more young people now report using condoms,2 there is a need to publicise the timing and availability of emergency contraception for those occasions when some form of failure occurs, be it failure to buy a condom, failure to use it, or its failure to remain intact.Improving knowledge of the availability and appropriate use of emergency contraception has been identified as one of the relatively few opportunities for reducing the high incidence of unplanned pregnancy in Britain, a target in the Health of the Nation. Many women, however, while vaguely aware that a postcoital method exists, are unsure of when it can be used and where it is available.3
Last summer we undertook two surveys of publicity for emergency contraception. In one
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- Sexual health education interventions for young people: a methodological review
- Ann Oakley, Deirdre Fullerton, Janet Holland, Sean Arnold, Merry France-Dawson, Peter Kelley, and Sheena McGrellis
BMJ 1995 310: 158-162.[Abstract] [Full Text]
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