Feasibility of recruiting peer educators for an online social networking-based health intervention

Health Education Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 276-282

  Young, Sean D ^a   Harrell, Lauren ^b   Jaganath, Devan ^a   Cohen, Adam Carl ^b   Shoptaw, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health intervention; online social networking technologies; peer leader

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH EDUCATOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84876730640     PISSN: 00178969     EISSN: 17488176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0017896912440768     Document Type: Article

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