Risky behaviours of Jamaican adolescents with sickle cell disease

Hematology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 373-379

  Asnani, Monika R ^a   Bhatt, Komal ^a   Younger, Novie ^a   McFarlane, Shelly ^a   Francis, Damian ^a   Gordon Strachan, Georgiana ^b   Reid, Marvin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Chronic illness; Jamaica; Risk behaviours; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JAMAICAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SMOKING; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAMAICA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919343095     PISSN: 10245332     EISSN: 16078454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1607845413Y.0000000136     Document Type: Article

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