No one's at home and they won't pick up the phone": Using the internet and text messaging to enhance partner services in North Carolina

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 143-148

  Hightow Weidman, Lisa ^a,c   Beagle, Steve ^a   Pike, Emily ^a   Kuruc, Joann ^a   Leone, Peter ^a,b   Mobley, Victoria ^b   Foust, Evelyn ^b   Gay, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b North Carolina Division of Public Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CENTRALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK REDUCTION; SYPHILIS; TEXT MESSAGING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTACT TRACING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84892985956     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000087     Document Type: Article

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