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. 2018 Jan 9;14(1):i–216. doi: 10.4073/csr.2018.1

Methods

Randomised controlled trial

Participants

695 ninth through twelfth grade school students

Treatment: 14% Male, 68% Black

Control: 17% Male, 67% Black

Location

United States (nationwide)

Interventions

Teen Outreach Program. It is a volunteer service programme, designed to prevent teen pregnancy and academic failure by enhancing normative processes of social development. The intervention involves supervised volunteer community service, classroom‐based discussion of service experience and classroom‐based discussions related to social development tasks of adolescence.

Programme deliverers

Teachers

Evaluator role

Unclear

Outcomes measured

School suspension

Teen pregnancy

Course failure

Length of intervention

One academic year (around 35 weeks)

Assessment

Baseline and post treatment

Attrition

Treatment group=5.3%

Control group= 8.4%

COI statement

Not presented

CoFI

Unclear