Associations between Health screening questions and sexual risk behaviors in adolescent female clinic patients: Identifying a brief question format to yield critical information

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 564-572

  Duke, Naomi N ^a   Sieving, Renee E ^a   Pettingell, Sandra L ^a   Skay, Carol L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent girls; Health screening; Sexual risk behaviors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 44849102727     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922808314904     Document Type: Article

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