Urban Seventh Grade Students: A Report of Health Risk Behaviors and Exposure to Violence

Journal of School Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 130-137

  Dowdell, Elizabeth Burgess ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol tobacco drug use prevention; health wellness; middle junior high school; quantitative research

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PENNSYLVANIA; RISK-TAKING; STUDENTS; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84858736000     PISSN: 10598405     EISSN: 15468364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059840511425678     Document Type: Article

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