Rebecca L Gould, Christopher J McDermott, Benjamin J Thompson, Charlotte V Rawlinson, Matt Bursnall, Mike Bradburn, Pavithra Kumar, Emily J Turton, David A White, Marc A Serfaty, Christopher D Graham, Lance M McCracken, Laura H Goldstein, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Richard W Orrell, Tim Williams, Rupert Noad, Idris Baker, Christina Faull, Thomas Lambert, Suresh K Chhetri, John Ealing, Anthony Hanratty, Aleksandar Radunovic, Nushan Gunawardana, Gail Meadows, George H Gorrie, Tracey Young, Vanessa Lawrence, Cindy Cooper, Pamela J Shaw, Robert J Howard
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy plus usual care for improving quality of life in people with motor neuron disease (COMMEND): a multicentre, parallel, randomised controlled trial in the UK
Lancet (London, England)
studies examined whether effect education pregnancy childbearing due academic skills acquired social environment schooling provides paper explores whether adolescent girls learning skills school enrollment grade attainment friendships affect risk pregnancy whether friendships mediate relationship education pregnancy draw three waves longitudinal data adolescent girls aged 1115 kibera informal settlement nairobi kenya years 20152019 use fixed effects regression models estimate effects girls learning skills school attendance grade attainment friendships probability experiencing pregnancy conduct mediation analyses assess whether friendships mediate relationship education pregnancy round one 2015 01 girls reported experienced pregnancy round three 2019 63 even adjusting friendships find attending school decreases probability pregnancy nine percentage points additional year schooling decreases probability pregnancy three percentage points one standard deviation increase numeracy decreases probability pregnancy one percentage point male friends attend school increases girls probability experiencing pregnancy four percentage points association remains adjusting girls education however outofschool girls far likely report outofschool male friends find evidence types friendships affect girls probability becoming pregnant find significant protective effects school attendance higher grade attainment numeracy skills girls pregnancy close friendships outofschool males increases girls probability pregnancy find evidence meaningful mediation suggesting protective effects school attendance learning remain regardless risk may face friendships