Effects of peer education on the peer educators in a school-based HIV prevention program: Where should peer education research go from here?

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 411-423

  Ebreo, Angela ^a,d   Feist Price, Sonja ^b   Siewe, Youmasu ^c   Zimmerman, Rick S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER GROUP; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; KENTUCKY; MALE; OHIO; PEER GROUP; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 85047672609     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109019810202900402     Document Type: Review

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