Evaluation of social media utilization by latino adolescents: Implications for mobile health interventions

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Landry, Megan ^c   Vyas, Amita ^a   Turner, Monique ^a   Glick, Sara ^b   Wood, Susan ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Acculturation; Latino a; Sex; Short message service; Social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009857947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4374     Document Type: Article

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