Perceptions of childhood obesity on the Texas-Mexico border

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 320-328

  Bayles, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Child health; Mexican American; Obesity; Q sort

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY TEST; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PILOT PROJECTS; Q-SORT; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS;

EID: 77955074872     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2010.00861.x     Document Type: Article

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