Adolescent/Youth Reproductive Mobile Access and Delivery Initiative for Love and Life Outcomes (ARMADILLO) Study: formative protocol for mHealth platform development and piloting

Reproductive Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Gonsalves, Lianne ^a   L'Engle, Kelly L ^b   Tamrat, Tigest ^a   Plourde, Kate F ^b   Mangone, Emily R ^b,c   Agarwal, Smisha ^b,c   Say, Lale ^a   Hindin, Michelle J ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b FHI360 ^*  (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Intervention; Low income countries; mHealth; Middle income countries; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEW; JUVENILE; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOBILE PHONE; PILOT STUDY; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL HEALTH; TEXT MESSAGING; EDUCATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE APPLICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CELL PHONES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RESEARCH DESIGN; TEXT MESSAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938775824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12978-015-0059-y     Document Type: Article

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