Developing health promotion interventions: A multisource method applied to weight loss among low-income postpartum women

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 188-195

  Walker, Lorraine O ^a   Kim, Sunghun ^a   Sterling, Bobbie Sue ^a   Latimer, Lara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Interventions; Obesity; Participatory research; Positive deviance

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; POSTNATAL CARE; POVERTY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PUERPERAL DISORDER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBESITY; POSTNATAL CARE; POVERTY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; TEXAS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77950611613     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2010.00841.x     Document Type: Article

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