Building Positive Life Skills the Smart Girls Way: Evaluation of a School-Based Sexual Responsibility Program for Adolescent Girls

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 463-471

  Graves, Kelly N ^a   Sentner, Annette ^b   Workman, Jean ^c   Mackey, Wanda ^c  

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

^b Guilford County Schools   (United States)

^c Department of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; gender; program evaluation; sexual responsibility; STI; teen pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 80052046016     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839910370420     Document Type: Article

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