HealthMpowerment.org: Building Community Through a Mobile-Optimized, Online Health Promotion Intervention

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 493-499

  Hightow Weidman, Lisa B ^a   Muessig, Kathryn E ^a   Pike, Emily C ^a   LeGrand, Sara ^b   Baltierra, Nina ^a   Rucker, Alvin Justin ^c   Wilson, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

African American; men who have sex with men (MSM); mobile and wireless interventions; new media and social media interventions; tailored or targeted interventions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MOBILE PHONE; NORTH CAROLINA; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSGENDER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CELL PHONES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938686304     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198114562043     Document Type: Article

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