Breastfeeding attitudes of Finnish parents during pregnancy

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Laanterä, Sari ^a   Pölkki, Tarja ^b   Ekström, Anette ^c   Pietilä, Anna Maija ^d  

^a University of Oulu ^*  (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO BREAST FEEDING; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENDER; HUMAN; INCOME; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PARENT; PARITY; PREGNANCY; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649628837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-10-79     Document Type: Article

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