Correlates of video games playing among adolescents in an Islamic country

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Allahverdipour, Hamid ^a   Bazargan, Mohsen ^b   Farhadinasab, Abdollah ^c   Moeini, Babak ^d  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; ISLAM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 77952711264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-286     Document Type: Article

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