'To touch them, is to love them': Effects of direct experience with condoms on adolescents' attitudes toward condoms

Health Education Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-310

  De Wit, Rein ^a   Victoir, An ^a   Van Den Bergh, Omer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDOM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0030763969     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/12.3.301     Document Type: Article

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