Published on in Vol 26 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/44861, first published .
What Adolescents Say in Text Messages to Motivate Peer Networks to Access Health Care and Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing: Qualitative Thematic Analysis

What Adolescents Say in Text Messages to Motivate Peer Networks to Access Health Care and Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing: Qualitative Thematic Analysis

What Adolescents Say in Text Messages to Motivate Peer Networks to Access Health Care and Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing: Qualitative Thematic Analysis

Marguerita Lightfoot   1, 2 , PhD ;   Chadwick Campbell   2, 3 , PhD ;   Allysha C Maragh-Bass   4, 5 , PhD ;   Joi Jackson-Morgan   6 , MPH ;   Kelly Taylor   2, 7 , PhD

1 School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University – Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States

2 Division of Prevention Science, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

3 Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

4 Behavioral, Epidemiological, Clinical Sciences Division, FHI 360, Durham, NC, United States

5 Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

6 3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic, San Francisco, CA, United States

7 Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD
  • School of Public Health
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