Enhancing HIV communication between parents and children: Efficacy of the parents matter! program

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 550-563

  Miller, Kim S ^a   Lin, Carol Y ^b   Poulsen, Melissa N ^a   Fasula, Amy ^b   Wyckoff, Sarah C ^c   Forehand, Rex ^d   Long, Nicholas ^e   Armistead, Lisa ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONDOM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PARENT MATTER PROGRAM; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNICATION; CONDOMS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK-TAKING; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855171210     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2011.23.6.550     Document Type: Article

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