Display of Health Risk Behaviors on MySpace by Adolescents
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Display of health risk behaviors on MySpace by adolescents: prevalence and associations.
OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of and associations among displayed risk behavior information that suggests sexual behavior, substance use, and violence in a random sample of the self-reported 18-year-old adolescents' publicly accessible MySpace Web profiles. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using content analysis of Web profiles between July 15 and September 30, 2007. SETTING www.MySpace...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1072-4710
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.528