Stepwise development of a text messaging-based bullying prevention program for middle school students (bullydown)

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Ybarra, Michele L ^a   Prescott, Tonya L ^a   Espelage, Dorothy L ^b  

^a Center for Innovative Public Health Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bullying; mhealth; Prevention; Text messaging; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989831156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4936     Document Type: Article

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