Understanding interventions and outcomes in mothers of infants

Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-44

  Gardner, Marcia R ^a,b   Deatrick, Janet A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33645003660     PISSN: 01460862     EISSN: 1521043X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01460860500523756     Document Type: Review

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