What young people want from a sexual health website: Design and development of sexunzipped

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  McCarthy, Ona ^a   Carswell, Kenneth ^b   Murray, Elizabeth ^a   Free, Caroline ^c   Stevenson, Fiona ^a   Bailey, Julia V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Qualitative research; Sex education; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL EDUCATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONDON; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEX EDUCATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872438207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2116     Document Type: Article

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