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Research Papers and Documents

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Family Planning Research Products

1.      Title X Evaluability Assessment, Research Triangle Institute:
Literature Review; Data Report

2.      Family & Intimate Partner Violence, Battelle: Literature Review; Final Report

3.      Couples Based Clinical Services, Health Systems Research: Literature Review

4.      Family Planning Needs and Services in the United States, Guttmacher Institute: Women in Need 2004

5.      Family Planning Research Cooperative Agreement, Child Trends: Demographic Portrait of Statutory Rape; Research Brief; Statutory Rape Data Bank Indicator  

6.      Women Leaving Prison: Two Models of Family Planning Service Delivery: Rhode Island Hospital: Improving Birth Control Services; Reproductive Health Care

7.  Final Report for OPA, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.: 1% HIV Prevention Project (Development of a Clinical Risk Index Tool to Improve HIV Prevention Counseling, Testing, and Early Treatment in Family Planning Clinics

Family Planning Research Projects (Summaries Only)

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1.      How Well Do Family Planning Providers Link Their Low Income Clients to Primary and/or Special Care, University of Alabama-Birmingham

2.      Men’s Reproductive and Sexual Health Practices, Attitudes and Service Utilization, Columbia University Medical Center

3.      Improving Services for Latina Women and Their Partners: A CAPACITIES Approach, Georgetown University, Department of OB/GYN 

4.      Couples and Contraceptive Practice, Family Planning Council 

5.      Improving the Quality of Family Planning Services, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health

6.      Parent Involvement Strategies, Research Triangle Institute

7.      Evaluation of Strategies to Encourage Couples-Based Service Delivery, Health Systems Research

8.      Evaluation of Family and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention, Battelle Institute

9.      Title X Assessment of Current Evaluation Needs, RTI International

10. Family Planning Needs and Services in the United States, The Alan Guttmacher Institute

11. Child Trends/OPA Cooperative Agreement for Family Planning Research, Child Trends

OPA-Supported National Surveys and Data Dissemination Efforts

1.      2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), National Center for Health Statistics, CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm

2.      Targeted Dissemination of NSFG Adolescent Data, National Campaign of Prevent Teen Pregnancy: Science Says:

       http://www.teenpregnancy.org/works

• #14  Teens’ Attitudes Toward Sex, 2002
• #15  Teens’ Attitudes Toward Childbearing, 2002
• #16  Teens’ Attitudes Toward Marriage, Cohabitation and Divorce, 2002
• #21  Teens’ Attitudes Toward Pregnancy and Childbearing, 1988-2002
• #22  Teens’ Sexual Experience, 1995-2002
• #23  Pregnancy Among Sexually Experienced Teens, 2002
• #25  Parent-Child Communication About Sex and Related Topics

3.       National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, National Institute of Child Health and Development, NIH:   http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/news