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The problem
Intervention: None - this is an observational study analysing the relationship between coerced first sex and early sexual initiation
Who it was tested with: 1,242 sexually active unmarried adolescent girls and young women aged 15-24 in Tanzania.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"We used cross-sectional data from the 2022 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey... We relied on logistic regression models to examine the role of coerced sex on early sexual initiation." The study observes associations between coercion and early sexual initiation but cannot prove causal relationships or test interventions to prevent these outcomes.
Cross-sectional design cannot establish causality; no intervention was tested; reliance on survey data may involve recall bias; coercion measure not detailed in abstract
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