Volunteer peer counselors increase breastfeeding duration among rural low-income women

Birth

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-106

  Schafer, Elisabeth ^a   Vogel, Mary Kay ^b   Viegas, Swarna ^b   Hausafus, Cheryl ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEER GROUP; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEER GROUP; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 0032085959     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536x.1998.00101.x     Document Type: Article

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