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Measuring Consistency of Contraception Use Over Time Among Teen Mothers
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By ETR | July 19, 2016
Note: We're posting about some of the presentations ETR researchers and professional development specialists are offering at the Office of Adolescent Health Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grantee Conference July 19-21.Teen parents face a number of challenges. When a teen mother has a rapid repeat birth—a second (or more) child before age 20—the challenges become even greater. Almost 1 in 5 teen births is a repeat birth, and only about 1 in 5 sexually active teen mothers use the most effective birth control methods.
For the past 6 years, ETR researcher Pam Drake, PhD, has been collaborating with Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine on a project designed to support teen parents and prevent unintended repeat births. One strategy in the project is to increase the use of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). These contraceptives, including IUDs and hormonal implants, are the most effective available today, and are safe for most women, including adolescents.
On Wednesday, July 20, Dr. Drake and co-presenters Mona Desai, MPH, Leslie Clark, PhD and Vivian Okonta, all from CHLA, are offering a poster describing how they measured the consistency of contraception use over time with the teen mothers participating in their project.
Pamela Drake, Mona Desai. Measurement Consistency of Contraception Use Over Time Among Teen Mothers. Wednesday, 7/20/16, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Poster #210 in the Evaluation Section, East Foyer of the Key Ballroom.
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How Collaboration Strengthens Program Evaluation and Can Lead to Program Sustainability: A Look Back
By ETR | July 19, 2016
Note: We're posting about some of the presentations ETR researchers and professional development specialists are offering at the Office of Adolescent Health Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grantee Conference July 19-21.
ETR researchers are big fans of collaboration in program evaluation. “Collaboration can ensure that your evaluation design is realistic, appropriate and effective for the context,” explains ETR researcher Pam Drake, PhD.
She’ll be joining partners Mona Desai, MPH, from Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, and Sarah Kershner, PhD, from the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, to discuss the ways collaboration has supported effective evaluations in several teen pregnancy prevention programs.
Mona Desai, Pamela Drake, Sarah Kershner. How Collaboration Strengthens Program Evaluation and Can Lead to Program Sustainability: A Look Back. Thursday, 7/21/16, 10:15-11:30 a.m. Panel in the Evaluation Track, Tubman A/B.
But Wait, There's More!
Here are some other ways collaboration helps:
- It can increase the probability that you’ll get the data you need.
- It can point out potential obstacles to the evaluation early enough in the process to make appropriate adjustments.
- It can help evaluators identify survey items and methods that answer the important questions about how and why an intervention works (or doesn’t).
Getting better information about a program during the evaluation helps developers and implementers make changes in the materials or implementation that lead to greater impact and more sustainability. “When we work as a team on the evaluation,” says Dr. Drake, “we can also help a program build their capacity to collect and use data in an ongoing way for continuous quality improvement.”
On their panel at the OAH conference, they’ll be presenting collaboration success stories from prior evaluations of TPP programs. They’ll also speak to pitfalls to avoid. All three presenters participated in significant and successful collaborations that have lead to stronger pregnancy prevention programs.
If you’re looking for a partner for program evaluation, you can contact Dr. Drake at pamd@etr.org.
This project was made possible by Grant Number 90AP2674 from the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Its contents are solely the responsibility of CHLA and do not necessarily represent the official views of the DHHS, ACF.
