Infant Feeding Styles of West Indian Women

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 22-30

  Corbett, Karen S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BABY FOOD; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTHER; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.);

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032617781     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104365969901000111     Document Type: Article

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