Health-enhancing behaviors correlated with breastfeeding among a national sample of mothers

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 120-124

  Pesa, Jacqueline A ^a   Shelton, M Mitchell ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033109601     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1446.1999.00120.x     Document Type: Article

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