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Interventions using new digital media to improve adolescent sexual health: a systematic review

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More data from controlled studies with longer (>1 year) follow-up and measurement of behavioral outcomes will provide a more robust evidence base from which to judge the effectiveness of new digital media in changing adolescent sexual behavior.
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This article is published in Journal of Adolescent Health.The article was published on 2012-12-01. It has received 340 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reproductive health & Digital media.

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Contraception for adolescents in low and middle income countries: needs, barriers, and access

TL;DR: Emerging data suggest mobile phones and social media are promising means of increasing contraceptive use among adolescents and increasing the access to and use of contraception by making health services adolescent-friendly, integrating contraceptive services with other health services, and providing contraception through a variety of outlets.
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A meta-analysis of serious digital games for healthy lifestyle promotion.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 54 serious digital game studies for healthy lifestyle promotion outcomes and the role of theoretically and clinically important moderators showed that serious games have small positive effects on healthy lifestyles.
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Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary

TL;DR: An overview of the types of digital technologies used for health promotion and the socio-political implications of such use is provided, and it is contended that many digitized health promotion strategies focus on individual responsibility for health and fail to recognize the social, cultural and political dimensions of digital technology use.
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Quantified sex: a critical analysis of sexual and reproductive self-tracking using apps.

TL;DR: A critical analysis of computer apps used to self-track features of users' sexual and reproductive activities and functions is presented, suggesting that such apps represent sexuality and reproduction in certain defined and limited ways that work to perpetuate normative stereotypes and assumptions about women and men asSexual and reproductive subjects.
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The theory of planned behavior

TL;DR: Ajzen, 1985, 1987, this article reviewed the theory of planned behavior and some unresolved issues and concluded that the theory is well supported by empirical evidence and that intention to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior.
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Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory

TL;DR: In this paper, models of Human Nature and Casualty are used to model human nature and human health, and a set of self-regulatory mechanisms are proposed. But they do not consider the role of cognitive regulators.
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Social cognitive theory of self-regulation☆

TL;DR: In social cognitive theory human behavior is extensively motivated and regulated by the ongoing exercise of self-influence as discussed by the authors, and the major self-regulative mechanism operates through three principal sub-functions: self-monitoring of one's behavior, its determinants, and its effects; judgment of behavior in relation to personal standards and environmental circumstances; and affective self-reaction.
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Putting the fear back into fear appeals: The extended parallel process model

TL;DR: The Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) as mentioned in this paper is based on Leventhal's (1970) danger control/fear control framework, which is used to explain why fear appeals fail and re-incorporate fear as a central variable.
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