Youth United Through Health Education: Community-Level, Peer-Led Outreach to Increase Awareness and Improve Noninvasive Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening in Urban African American Youth

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 499-505

  Boyer, Cherrie B ^a   Sieverding, John ^b   Siller, Jacqueline ^c   Gallaread, Alonzo ^c   Chang, Y Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Division of STD Prevention and Control ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Community level interventions; Peer led health outreach; Sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention; STI screening; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PEER GROUP; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAN FRANCISCO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNIVERSITIES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34248632555     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2006.09.020     Document Type: Article

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