Uptake and Acceptability of Information and Communication Technology in a Community-Based Cohort of People Who Inject Drugs: Implications for Mobile Health Interventions

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Genz, Andrew ^a   Kirk, Gregory ^a,b   Piggott, Damani ^a,b   Mehta, Shruti H ^a   Linas, Beth S ^a   Westergaard, Ryan P ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular phone; Internet; Intravenous; Substance abuse; Telemedicine; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969434514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3437     Document Type: Article

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