African-American Adolescent Girls' Initiation of Sexual Activity. Survival Analysis

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 146-155

  Dancy, Barbara L ^a   Crittenden, Kathleen S ^a   Ning, Hongyan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; KNOWLEDGE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL AGE; MONITORING; MOTHER; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK-TAKING; SELF EFFICACY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77649186639     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.11.015     Document Type: Article

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