Women's experience of lactational mastitis: 'I have never felt worse'

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 745-747

  Amir, Lisa Helen ^a   Lumley, Judith ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; COST OF ILLNESS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATION DISORDER; MASTITIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; COST OF ILLNESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LACTATION DISORDERS; MASTITIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 33750602478     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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