Using smartphone apps in STD interviews to find sexual partners

Public Health Reports

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 245-252

  Pennise, Melissa ^a   Inscho, Roxana ^a   Herpin, Kate ^a   Owens, John ^a   Bedard, Brenden A ^a   Weimer, Anita C ^a   Kennedy, Byron S ^a   Younge, Mary ^a  

^a Monroe County Department of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE FINDING; CASUAL SEX; CHLAMYDIASIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MIXED INFECTION; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; ONLINE DATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES; ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTACT EXAMINATION; INTERNET; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; PROCEDURES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTACT TRACING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933048400     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491513000311     Document Type: Article

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