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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access A structured review of reasons for ecstasy use and related behaviours: pointers for future research Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters* and Gerjo Kok Address: Department of Work and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Email: Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters* - gj.peters@maastrichtuniversity.nl; Gerjo Kok - g.kok@maastrichtuniversity.nl * Corresponding author Published: 13 July 2009 Received: 16 March 2009 Accepted: 13 July 2009 BMC Public Health 2009, 9:230 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-230 This article is available from: /1471-2458/9/230 © 2009 Peters and Kok; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: While the health risks of using ecstasy warrant intervention development, a recent meta-analysis of determinants of ecstasy use identified a number of lacunae in the literature. Specifically, no studies were included that address behaviours other than using ecstasy (e.g. trying out ecstasy or ceasing ecstasy use). However, because meta-analyses aim to integrate study results quantitatively, the resulting rigid exclusion criteria cause many studies to be discarded on