Influence of educational status and other variables on human immunodeficiency virus risk perception among military personnel: A large cohort finding

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1177-1181

  Essien, E James ^a,b   Ogungbade, Gbadebo O ^a   Ward, Doriel ^c   Ekong, Ernest ^d   Ross, Michael W ^b   Meshack, Angela ^b   Holmes Jr , Laurens ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d Institute of Health Research and Development   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 36148929007     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.11.1177     Document Type: Article

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