Enhancing recruitment and data quality in a junior high school-based teen pregnancy prevention study

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 277-285

  Aarons, Sigrid ^a   Rose, Allison ^b   Walker, June ^b   Lyles, Beverly ^c   Jenkins, Renee ^a   Raine, Tina ^d  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c Institute for Local Self Reliance   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent pregnancy prevention; Data quality; Instrument design; Parental consent; School based evaluations; Study recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346524529     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7189(01)00019-2     Document Type: Article

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