Development of an intervention delivered by mobile phone aimed at decreasing unintended pregnancy among young people in three lower middle income countries

BMC Public Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  McCarthy, Ona L ^a   Wazwaz, Ola ^b   Osorio Calderon, Veronica ^c   Jado, Iman ^b   Saibov, Salokhiddin ^d   Stavridis, Amina ^b   López Gallardo, Jhonny ^c   Tokhirov, Ravshan ^d   Adada, Samia ^e   Huaynoca, Silvia ^e   Makleff, Shelly ^e   Vandewiele, Marieka ^e   Standaert, Sarah ^e   Free, Caroline ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association   (Israel)

^c Centro de Investigación   (Bolivia)

^d Tajik Family Planning Association   (Tajikistan)

^e Arab World Regional Office ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Contraception; Family planning; Intervention development; Intervention mapping; mHealth; Palestine; Tajikistan

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BOLIVIA; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MOBILE PHONE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TAJIKISTAN; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BOLIVIA; CELL PHONE; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; TAJIKISTAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85046257481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5477-7     Document Type: Article

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