Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention: Shortened interrupted time series evaluation of a behavioural and structural health promotion and violence prevention intervention for young people in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jewkes, Rachel ^a,b   Gibbs, Andrew ^c   Jama Shai, Nwabisa ^a,b   Willan, Samantha ^c   Misselhorn, Alison ^c   Mushinga, Mildred ^d   Washington, Laura ^e   Mbatha, Nompumelelo ^e   Skiweyiya, Yandisa ^a  

^a Gender and Health Research Unit   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e Project Empower   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDAL IDEATION; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ATTITUDE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; SPOUSE ABUSE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924139696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1325     Document Type: Article

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