Effectiveness of a specialized vs. traditional AIDS education program attended by homeless and drug-addicted women alone or with supportive persons

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 433-446

  Nyamathi, Adeline ^a   Flaskerud, Jacquelyn ^b   Keenan, Colleen ^b   Leake, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG USE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; WOMEN;

EID: 0031781978     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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