Safer choices 2: Rationale, design issues, and baseline results in evaluating school-based health promotion for alternative school students

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-82

  Tortolero, Susan R ^a   Markham, Christine M ^a   Addy, Robert C ^a   Baumler, Elizabeth R ^a   Escobar Chaves, Soledad Liliana ^a   Basen Engquist, Karen M ^a   McKirahan, Nicole K ^a   Parcel, Guy S ^a  

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

Author keywords

Adolescent; African Americans; Group randomized trial; Hispanic Americans; HIV infections prevention and control; Pregnancy in adolescence prevention and control; Randomized controlled trial; Sex education; Sexual behavior; Sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control; Unsafe sex

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; COCAINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; UNSAFE SEX;

ADOLESCENT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 36549035704     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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