Mothers' 1/4 understanding of their infants in the context of an internal working model of caregiving

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-150

  Limbo, Rana ^a,b   Pridham, Karen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Infants; Internal working model; Mother infant relationship; Mothers; Narrative analysis; Primary health care; Qualitative; Understanding

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER; CHILD REARING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAREGIVERS; CHILD REARING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENTION; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 34249087533     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ANS.0000271104.34420.b6     Document Type: Article

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