Do actions speak louder than words? Perceived peer influences on needle sharing and cleaning in a sample of injection drug users

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 122-131

  Hawkins, Wesley E ^a   Latkin, Carl ^b   Mandel, Wallace ^b   Oziemkowska, Maria ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLEANING; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RISK; UNITED STATES; VERBALIZATION;

ADULT; BALTIMORE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLE SHARING; PEER GROUP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK-TAKING; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0032966138     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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