Evaluating the usability of personal digital assistants to collect behavioral data on adolescents with paradata

Field Methods

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-242

  McClamroch, Kristi J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; data collection; epidemiologic methods; health behavior; user computer interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959708101     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X11405826     Document Type: Article

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