Attitudes towards breastfeeding - the iowa infant feeding attitude scale in chinese mothers living in china and australia

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 266-269

  Chen, Shu ^a   Binns, Colin W ^a   Liu, Yi ^b   Maycock, Bruce ^a   Zhao, Yun ^a   Tang, Li ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Breastfeeding; Infant feeding; Iowa infant feeding attitude scale; Migrants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOTHER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AUSTRALIA; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878205961     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6133/apjcn.2013.22.2.09     Document Type: Article

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