Counselling and motivational videotapes increase duration of breast- feeding in Africa-American WIC participants who initiate breast-feeding

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-148

  Gross, Susan M ^a   Caulfield, Laura E ^a   Bentley, Margaret E ^a   Bronner, Yvonne ^a   Kessler, Lisa ^b   Jensen, Joan ^a   Paige, David M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTIVATION; NEGRO; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIDEOTAPE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BABY FOOD; CATERING SERVICE; COUNSELING; EDUCATION; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEER GROUP; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BALTIMORE; BREAST FEEDING; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEER GROUP; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 0031597722     PISSN: 00028223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8223(98)00037-6     Document Type: Article

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