Duration of exclusive breastfeeding; validity of retrospective assessment at nine months of age

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Agampodi, Suneth B ^a   Fernando, Suranga ^b   Dharmaratne, Samath D ^c   Agampodi, Thilini C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b MOH Office   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL RECORD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL BIAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SRI LANKA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDITY; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER; RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BREAST FEEDING; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTHERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80052845162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-80     Document Type: Article

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