Waiting to be weighed: A pilot study of the effect of delayed newborn weighing on breastfeeding outcomes

Canadian Nurse

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 24-28

  Thomson, Trish ^a   Hall, Wendy ^b   Balneaves, Lynda ^b   Wong, Sabrina ^c  

^a Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Centre for Health Services and Policy Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; PILOT PROJECTS; SELF EFFICACY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67651180592     PISSN: 00084581     EISSN: 14925494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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