Evaluation of the Wise Guys Male Responsibility Curriculum: Participant-Control Comparisons

Journal of School Health

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 152-158

  Gruchow, Harvey William ^a   Brown, Roger K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b Family Life Council   (United States)

Author keywords

Child and adolescent health; Human sexuality; Reproductive health; Risk behaviors; School health instruction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURRICULUM; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CURRICULUM; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 79951691625     PISSN: 00224391     EISSN: 17461561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2010.00574.x     Document Type: Article

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