Evaluation of a health promotion programme to prevent the misuse of androgenic anabolic steroids among Swedish adolescents

Health Promotion International

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-67

  Nilsson, Sverker ^a,b,c   Allebeck, Peter ^b   Marklund, Bertil ^b,c   Baigi, Amir ^b,c   Fridlund, Bengt ^b,d  

^a Department of Primary Health Care ^*  (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Research and Development Unit   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Androgenic anabolics; Appearance; Intervention

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG MISUSE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANDROGENS; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SCHOOLS; SWEDEN;

EID: 1642413664     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dah108     Document Type: Article

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