Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Jan 3, 2024
Open Peer Review Period: Jan 3, 2024 - Feb 28, 2024
Date Accepted: Mar 21, 2024
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Preconception Care Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults to Prevent Adverse Maternal and Child Health Outcomes: An Evidence Gap Map Protocol
ABSTRACT
Background:
Preconception is the period before a young woman or woman conceives, which draws attention to understanding how her health condition and certain risk factors affect her and her baby's health once she becomes pregnant. Adolescence and youth represent a life-course continuum between childhood and adulthood, in which the pre-pregnancy phase lacks sufficient research.
Objective:
To identify, map, and describe existing empirical evidence on preconception interventions that enhance health outcomes for adolescents, young adults, and their offspring.
Methods:
We will conduct an evidence gap map (EGM) activity following the 2020 PRISMA guidelines by populating searches identified from online databases such as Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library, etc. We will include interventional studies and reviews of interventional studies that report on the impact of preconception interventions for adolescents and young adults (aged 10 to <25 years) on adverse maternal, perinatal, and child health outcomes. All studies will undergo title/abstract and full-text screening on Covidence software. All included studies will be coded based using the EPPI-Reviewer software. Cochrane Risk of Bias tool 2.0 and AMSTAR-2 will be used to assess the quality of the included trials and reviews. A 2D graphical EGM will be developed using the EPPI-Mapper software.
Results:
This EGM exercise began in July 2023. Through electronic search identified 131,031 publications after de-duplication and, after the full-text screening, 22 studies (135 papers) were included in the review. We plan to submit a manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal once it is finalized, with an expected completion date in April 2024.
Conclusions:
This study will facilitate the prioritisation of future research and allocation of funding, while also suggesting interventions that may improve maternal, perinatal, and child health outcomes. Clinical Trial: The EGM is also registered on the Open Science Framework (OSF) doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/KV7JG.
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