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Original Articles

The key to risk communication success. The longitudinal effect of risk message repetition on actual self-protective behavior of primary school children

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Pages 1525-1540 | Received 07 Jun 2019, Accepted 11 Feb 2020, Published online: 11 Mar 2020

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