Adolescents' perceptions of a mobile cell phone text messaging-enhanced intervention and development of a mobile cell phone-based HIV prevention intervention

Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-69

  Cornelius, Judith B ^a   St Lawrence, Janet S ^b   Howard, Jacquelyn C ^a   Shah, Deval ^a   Poka, Avinash ^a   McDonald, Delilah ^a   White, Ann C ^c  

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

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sony Beck Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Mobile cell phone; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEXUAL EDUCATION; TEXT MESSAGING;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; SEX EDUCATION; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84155180917     PISSN: 15390136     EISSN: 17446155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6155.2011.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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