Beliefs about the appropriate age for initiating toilet training: Are there racial and socioeconomic differences?

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-168

  Horn, Ivor B ^a   Brenner, Ruth ^a   Rao, Malla ^a   Cheng, Tina L ^a  

^a CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD REARING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PARENTAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOILET TRAINING;

EID: 33746413195     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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