Justify your love: Testing an online STI-risk communication intervention designed to promote condom use and STI-testing

Psychology and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-221

  Mevissen, Fraukje E F ^a   Ruiter, Robert A C ^a   Meertens, Ree M ^a   Zimbile, Filippo ^b   Schaalma, Herman P ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b National Institute for STI and AIDS Control in the Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heterosexual relationships; Intervention; Online; Risk perception; Sexually transmitted infections; Tailoring; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDOM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMUNICATION; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951567594     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2011.531575     Document Type: Article

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