Relationships, love and sexuality: What the Filipino teens think and feel

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  De Irala, Jokin ^a   Osorio, Alfonso ^b   Del Burgo, Cristina López ^a   Belen, Vina A ^c   De Guzman, Filipinas O ^d,e   Calatrava, María Del Carmen ^a   Torralba, Antonio N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC   (Philippines)

^d Research for Education Intervention and Development   (Philippines)

^e Ortigas Center   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONDOM; CONVERSATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRIEND; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION; LOVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PHILIPPINES; PREGNANCY; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MALE; PHILIPPINES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUALITY;

EID: 69949142541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-282     Document Type: Article

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