Development of a mobile health intervention to promote papanicolaou tests and human papillomavirus vaccination in an underserved immigrant population: A culturally targeted and individually tailored text messaging approach

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2019, Pages

  Lee, Hee Yun ^a   Lee, Mi Hwa ^b   Sharratt, Monica ^c   Lee, Sohye ^d   Blaes, Anne ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian american; Immigrants; Papanicolaou test; Papillomavirus infections; Papillomavirus vaccines; Text messaging; Uterine cervical cancer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85070545477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/13256     Document Type: Article

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