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Universal adolescent education on healthy relationships needed
Key clinical point: Education about safer sexual activities and healthy relationships should be universally provided to adolescent patients.
Major finding: Among all female adolescents who’ve had heterosexual sex, 12% reported reproductive coercion, and 17% reported relationship abuse.
Study details: Secondary analysis of 550 sexually active adolescent girls from a cross-sectional baseline survey who visited clinics in Northern California during the 2012-2013 school year.
Disclosures: The authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest. Grants from the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health supported the study.
Hill AL et al. Obstet Gynecol. 2019;134(2):351-9.