Psychosocial determinants of the early introduction of complementary foods

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 302-320

  Tatone Tokuda, Fabiola ^a   Dubois, Lise ^a   Girard, Manon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infant feeding; Mother "child relations; Parenting; Psychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BABY FOOD; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TEMPERAMENT; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEMPERAMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64249112947     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198107303307     Document Type: Article

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