Teenagers and texting: Use of a youth ecological momentary assessment system in trajectory health research with latina adolescents

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Garcia, Carolyn ^a   Hardeman, Rachel R ^b   Kwon, Gyu ^c   Lando King, Elizabeth ^a   Zhang, Lei ^c   Genis, Therese ^a   Brady, Sonya S ^b   Kinder, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Intervention research; Longitudinal; Texting; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85100369964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.2576     Document Type: Article

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