It's all about the children: A participant-driven photo-elicitation study of Mexican-origin mothers' food choices

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Johnson, Cassandra M ^a,b,c   Sharkey, Joseph R ^a   Dean, Wesley R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COOKING; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD CHOICE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL CARE; PHOTOGRAPHY; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053355493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-11-41     Document Type: Article

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