Reports of birthweight by adolescents and their mothers: Comparing accuracy and identifying correlates

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 520-527

  Lucia, Victoria C ^a   Luo, Zhehui ^a   Gardiner, Joseph C ^a   Paneth, Nigel ^a   Breslau, Naomi ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Birthweight; Recall; Retrospective

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTHER; RECALL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICHIGAN; MOTHERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33750068269     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2006.00757.x     Document Type: Article

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