Adolescent Use of Social Networking to Gain Sexual Health Information

Journal for Nurse Practitioners

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 294-298

  Yager, Amy M ^a,b   O'Keefe, Catherine ^a  

^a Creighton University School of Nursing   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Facebook; Sexually transmitted infections; Social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859612004     PISSN: 15554155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2012.01.016     Document Type: Article

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