Improving the validity of self-reported sexual behavior: No easy answers

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 111-112

  DiClemente, Ralph J ^a   Swartzendruber, Andrea L ^a   Brown, Jennifer L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ABSTINENCE; ANUS INTERCOURSE; CONDOM; EDITORIAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; Y CHROMOSOME;

CONDOMS; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 84872936156     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3182838474     Document Type: Editorial

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