Evaluating the internet as a sexually transmitted disease risk environment for teens: Findings from the communication, health, and teens study

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 528-533

  Buhi, Eric R ^a   Klinkenberger, Natalie ^b   McFarlane, Mary ^c   Kachur, Rachel ^c   Daley, Ellen M ^a   Baldwin, Julie ^a   Blunt, Heather D ^a   Hughes, Shana ^d   Wheldon, Christopher W ^a   Rietmeijer, Cornelis ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Physicians for Peace   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e Food Science and Human Nutrition   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; COITUS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERNET SEX; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONLINE DATING; ORAL SEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SEX; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888631930     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31829413f7     Document Type: Article

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