Using video narratives of women's lived experience of breastfeeding in midwifery education: Exploring its impact on midwives' attitudes to breastfeeding

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-102

  Taylor, Alison M ^a   Hutchings, Maggie ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Breastfeeding support; Education; Focus groups; Midwives; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMOTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MIDWIFE ATTITUDE; MIDWIFERY EDUCATION; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MIDWIFERY; NARRATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 83055177140     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2010.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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