Testing the Integrated Theory of Health Behaviour Change for postpartum weight management

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2047-2059

  Ryan, Polly ^a   Weiss, Marianne ^b   Traxel, Nicole ^a   Brondino, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health behaviour change; Integrated Theory of Health Behaviour Change; Nurse; Postpartum weight self management; Self management; Theory testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PUERPERIUM; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; OVERWEIGHT; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CARE; SELF EFFICACY; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS; WOMEN;

EID: 80051563041     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05648.x     Document Type: Article

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