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An infant simulator programme did not reduce teenage pregnancy

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2016-312340

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    Study design

    Design: Randomised cluster control trial.

    Allocation: Schools were randomised 1:1 intervention:control. Randomisation undertaken using random number tables without stratification or blocking.

    Blinding: Unblinded.

    Study question

    Setting: 57 high schools (excluding Catholic schools) in Perth, Western Australia.

    Participants: 2834 girls aged 13–15 enrolled at an included high school who were nulliparous, 1267 in the intervention schools and 1567 in the control schools.

    Intervention: Each girl was assigned to care for an infant simulator (Baby Think It Over) doll for 64 hours. The simulator replicates the feeding and sleeping patterns of a 6-week-old infant.

    Outcomes: Pregnancy (live birth, stillbirth, abortion).

    Follow-up period: Until participants reached 20 years of age (5–7 years depending …

    Correspondence to Dr Giordano Pérez-Gaxiola, Evidence-Based Medicine, Hospital Pediátrico de Sinaloa, Blvd. Constitución y Donato Guerra SN, Col. Almada, Culiacan 80200, Mexico; giordano{at}sinestetoscopio.com

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors GP-G wrote the commentary. Amanda J Friend wrote the structured abstract.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.