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Doesn't Work to Encourage Use of Condoms: Abstinence-only Programs |
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The Postponing Sexual Involvement (PSI)/Education Now and Babies Later (ENABL) Program is a school-based and/or community-based after-school program for female and male adolescents aged 12-14 years in 17 high-risk sites in California. The program targeted primarily Asian/Pacific Islander (47-52%) and Hispanic (20%) teens. The goal of this abstinence-focused program is to postpone sexual involvement. Among sexually experienced youth, this program promotes reducing sexual activity first and then encouraging contraceptive use. The PSI/ENABL intervention took place from 1992 to 1994. The program consists of five sessions, each lasting 45-60 minutes, along with community-wide activities that send positive messages about postponing sexual involvement. An experimental evaluation of PSI/ENABL found no significant impacts of participation in the program on sexual activity, contraceptive use or pregnancy. The evaluators suggest that the lack of program impacts may be because the program is "too short and too limited in its activities to teach refusal skills necessary to reduce sexual risks." |
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