A call for parental monitoring to improve condom use among secondary school students in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mlunde, Linda B ^a   Poudel, Krishna C ^b   Sunguya, Bruno F ^a   Mbwambo, Jessie K K ^c   Yasuoka, Junko ^a   Otsuka, Keiko ^a   Ubuguyu, Omary ^c   Jimba, Masamine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Condom use; Parental monitoring; Sexual behaviors; Tanzania; Young people

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONDOM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; TANZANIA; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870540199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-1061     Document Type: Article

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